Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 20:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > No it doesnt. I made my argument with detailed rationale on why I > > believe it is not useful in general cases. If you disagree with me, feel > > free to do so but I would like to hear a detailed set of use cases that > > make it a convincing enough argument for Anaconda to support it for end > > users apart from Kickstart capability. > What most people complain about here is AFAICS that we completely > removed (instead of just hid) an option they valued and that was a well > tested (by them), supposedly no-brainer sort of code path, very much > unlikely to give any problems down the road. Granted we have a new > package selector in anaconda now, but I guess adding back the Everything > checkbox and code, perhaps hidden behind an "offereverything" boot > loader option (so we don't scare away unsuspecting types) can't be that > much of an effort. I'd say it would be worth the trouble, because then > we could end this discussion. Yet again: The code to do this is probably quite simple. The problem is the fallout in form of non-working systems with weird sympthoms, security problems caused by forgotten servers installed, performance problems due to unnecesary stuff running (or at least on disk), longer update times (and higher load on mirrors). The (missing) feature you see, it's fallout you don't. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list