On Sunday, December 15, 2019 1:53:15 PM MST Frantisek Zatloukal wrote: > On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 9:05 PM John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > That was not brought up elsewhere in this thread. Who is considering this, > > and > > why? That would mean that a large portion of users would *not be able to > > install Fedora*. > > Just note that I mean blocking by "supported". I am not talking about > dropping capability of installation from optical media. Might have been > slight misunderstanding and bad wording on my side. Also, I doubt that your > "large portion" is correct. As explained earlier in this thread, DVD drives are still a standard offering on prebuilt systems. In fact, I just checked, and they're a standard offering on ALL of the current line Dell workstations which are RHEL certified. > > UNetbootin has never been a supported method of creating USB media. > > Optical media is a supported installation method. > > It doesn't matter what was or wasn't supported. WIth definition of what I > mean with "supported" above, if this proposal is accepted, UNetbootin > wouldn't be supported too differently than physical optical media. Users > would be able to report bugs with these methods and those bugs wouldn't be > release blocking. > > Practically speaking, I'd say that adding the same warning as is in > UNetbootin section in Fedora Docs [0] to the Live CD section [1] would make > sense, but this is just an idea and probably out of scope of this thread. I have no idea why you'd do that, nor why anyone would want to do it. That'd be like telling folks installing from DVD images isn't the right thing to do, which makes no sense, as it's the standard way to install any system, and has been since the mid 2000s. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
