Fedora 7 vs 6 installation - remove final next

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Thu Jan 11 15:14:54 UTC 2007


Gianluca Sforna schrieb:
> On 1/11/07, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177391
>> There was no real discussion at the time in saying wontfix. I still
>> think that this is essential to nppo {not  iss people off}. If anybody
>> really wants and has a need (anaconda developers?) to display such a
>> check box, it would make sense to have a checkbox on the previous screen
>> "wait after resolving package selections", which would be by default not
>> ticked.
>> The only reason I can think of to not immediately go ahead after package
>> selection is if the package resolution was not solvable -> then you
>> would show a screen informing our user of the fact.
>> Is there anyone can give a good reason for requiring the user to wait
>> 2-5-10 minutes for package resolution to complete, and then actually ask
>> the user if they want to "next" what they have already said they want to
>> do, namely install fedora ??
> +1
> The time for deposolving will be probably shorter in F7 (AFAIK there
> was a bug in yum slowing down that phase), bu I also think that "Next"
> should really go away. 

+1

> IMO, not even the checkbox is needed.

Having a "next" somewhere as the final question that means "I'll really
start now and thus now might format you hard drive after you clicked
next" is IMHO fine and needed, but yes, the current place is annoying.

CU
thl




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