On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:21 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote: > And I would further posit that, since the position has been taken that > you can override all of this post-install, the potential complexity is > only reduced in the installation process. The installed system remains > just as complex and would still require (in proper methodology) testing > of all components in the overall repository in any case. Thus the > overall workload on developers is not really reduced at all. Installation is the only part of this where my opinion carries any weight, if even there. This is why I said I personally frown upon the practice of doing this post-install. If it were up to me, everyone would be forced to make a decision and it would be impossible to have multiple desktop environments installed within a given OS installation. > > So we have a proposed change that provides little benefit to perhaps a > small group of developers on what should be shared components > (Installer / Package Manager) which results in a loss of function to > users, and increases the risk of bifurcating the distro on at least a > social level (if not a technical one). > > In all (quoting "Ghost Busters") this just sounds like "...an > extraordinarily bad idea". Sounds to me like hyperbole. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
