No Full Control Install!

[Douglas Sievers]

Amen! I was actually looking forward to custom selecting packages, since I
was doing a clean install on a new drive. My last install I was a newbie and
learned just how much trash I should get rid of. Needless to say I was VERY
disappointed with the install.

Even though I chose to custom select packages and do my best, the installer
took on a mind
of its own, installing extra packages left unselected and ignoring packages
that I DID want to install.

Later, from the add/remove programs GUI, when I tried installing packages
from disk, the GUI requests  "Fedora Core 1" disk 1 (or whatever).  After
putting the CD in, the package update exits with an error. I think this is
because the ISO's have "FC-1 i386" as the CD name, not "Fedora Core 1" as it
should have been. I had to use yum for the new packages I wanted to install.
What a headache!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David C. Hart" <dch at TQMcube.com>
To: "Fedora-List" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: No Full Control Install!


> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:00, Doug Stewart wrote:
>
> > You must not have been paying attention to the fedora-test-list.
> >
>
> No I was not.
>
> > The thinking goes (and someone from RH correct me if I'm wrong) is that
> > anaconda is the wrong place to be doing package selection.  Eventually,
> > FC should just get enough of a system up and running for the users to be
> > able to select/install packages from a nice, X-enabled FirstBoot
situation.
>
> . No offense but that seems misguided.
>
> Under many circumstances, that requires installing and then deleting
> packages that one doesn't need or want. In other circumstances I have to
> delete RPMs from the database to prevent them from being "upgraded."
> This complicates things considerably.
>
> I hate to say this but SOMEONE "FIXED" WHAT WEREN'T BROKEN. I cannot
> fathom what POSSIBLE benefit accrues to anyone by eliminating this
> feature.
>
>
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