On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 12:31 -0500, Seth Vidal wrote: > On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > And I do think that you want to have the same sort of > > groupings/taggings/whatever for both cases... that or we switch to a "we > > always install a large base set of stuff and then you can go in and > > tweak to your heart's content". > > Which is like livecd-based-install + gui-installer later, right? Same idea. We could do it installing actual packages, though which is what we'd want to do for the general case > > But that suggestion tends to make server-type people come after me with pitchforks and fire ;-) > > My perspective on server-type installs has always been the same: > kickstart a minimal and %post the rest in via: yum -y install pkg1 pkg2 > pkg3. But it might just be the years of success deploying like in that way > which makes me think that ;) That's fine for people that have been using Linux for a long time and something that I recommend too. But how do you know what set of pkg1 pkg2, etc you want without those years of experience? It's a hard problem. And unfortunately, it's a problem that's made that much harder by the vast amounts of choice we present to people. Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
