Re: custom package selection

[csieh <csieh fnal gov>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 12:00, csieh wrote:
> > So once the code is in there it does not have to change, at least not
> > much.
> 
> No, actually, getting it working in a fashion that could be considered
> sane once you start taking into account multilib package installation is
> ugly.  And the weirdo things with people getting themselves into bizarre
> states because they decided they would be cute and try to deselect
> package X which they really needed.
> 
> It basically needed a complete rewrite to work with some of the changed
> functionality in other places in the installer and it was decided that
> it was far more generally useful to do that rewriting for
> redhat-config-packages where you're actually going to be able to use it
> more than once.

I guess I need to look at the code.  I did not know that you rewrote other 
things. 

-Connie Sieh

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> Jeremy
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