Re: custom package selection

[Stephen Smoogen <smoogen lanl gov>]

IE patches may be welcome :).

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 10:17, 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.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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