On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 07:58 -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:14:32 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >Fedora can deal with Extras.
> >Fedora has no problem dealing with extras.
> >anaconda, right now, does not know much about it.
>
> But anaconda is part of Fedora, and as the installer a rather critical
> part.
>
> If anaconda cannot deal with Extras then claiming Fedora can deal with
> extras is a bit misleading.
If you send me a patch to handle repos in anaconda, I'll be certain to
have a look at it ASAP to see if we can use it.
I'm going to bet that won't happen, and in that case, basic repo support
in anaconda is one of the major features of the plan for FC5, with
improved support in further releases.
> I realize that for many people having to run yum or up2date after they
> think they have finished their upgrade to Fedora 4 will not be a big
> issue. But there will be a group of people who will find it confusing
> and/or inconvenient.
Sure. We still need to do an FC4 release, and pushing for 6 months is
the same thing as just not doing one.
With Fedora, we've consciously chosen to do regular releases rather than
collapse under the weight of really big changes. This has good sides
and bad sides. One result of is that there are things we all know are
the right step, but they're not *this* step, they're the next one.
That's just the way it is.
If you don't think anaconda development is moving quickly enough, and
you're writing useful code, get on the mailing list for anaconda
development. Keep in mind that it's a "this piece of code works this
way" and "I have a patch to this" sort of list, so if you just want to
discuss the plan, here on fedora-devel is almost certainly a better
venue.
--
Peter
