Re: thoughts on kickstart

[Erik Troan <ewt redhat com>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:01:30 +1000
"Ian Mortimer" <ian physics uq edu au> wrote:

> > Kickstart also gets enhanced, but it has some legacy
> > issues (many of them thanks to poor planning on my part) that folks are
> still
> > stuck with.
> 
> Since kickstart is still a relatively immature product I would vote for
> improving it's design and usability as a higher priority than backward
> compatibility.

While kickstart could be called immature, it's hardly new. It's been around
for 4 years (maybe more), and we have a number of folks using it in reasonably
large implementations. Backwards compatibility is, and will remain, important.

Erik

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