A choice?

[Japheth Cleaver]

I think a lot of this discussion can be applied to the "Select Individual 
Packages" option later in the install process too.

RH9 had a wonderful interface for selecting specifically which packages you 
did and did not want, allowing you to see a description and size 
information on all packages before installing them.

Fedora did away with this interface in exchange for a "simpler" one, which 
took away the descriptive interface and replaced it with a buggier, more 
obtuse one.

As an RFE, can we have the old one back?


Japheth "J.C." Cleaver


At 12:03 PM 4/9/2004, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 15:42, Mark A. Hoover wrote:
>
> > Allowing somebody a choice isn't going to kill anyone here.  Isn't that
> > one of the reasons why we all decided to run Linux in the first place?
>
>I would argue that both your examples (Lilo and an fdisk button) fall
>into the category of being needlessly redundant.  An expert -- the only
>kind of person who would appreciate the choice -- can choose for
>themselves if they want to use lilo (admittedly, only after the install)
>or fdisk (what difference does a button that switches to a console or a
>key-press sequence make, really?)
>
>One of the challenges of putting together a good distribution is
>choosing reasonable defaults while allowing experts to customize to
>their heart's content.  Fedora is exceptionally good at that, IMHO.
>
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