Pungi and a text-only F9 installer for XS

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 07:59 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> A "textonly" splitoff of anaconda and anaconda runtime that drop the X
> >> dependencies would shed ~200 MB of dependencies, and make F9 a better
> >> fit for embedded deployments, making the XS image smaller and nicer
> >> along the way... hint, hint... :-)
> >
> > NAK because the text mode installer is deprecated in major ways --
> > there's just no way to support the feature set that people want from the
> > installer.
> 
> Interesting. I always understood the text installer would be easier to
> support in alt arches and embedded devices, etc. How do you plan to
> support installs over serial port on headless boxes?

Kickstart and vnc both exist.  Text mode limits you to 80x24, lots of
problems supporting non-Latin languages, no input methods, poor
toolkits, ..  the list could go on for a while.  You just can't provide
the richness of user experience that's really needed to do some of the
complex things that people want to do with an install in a text mode
environment.  And those sorts of complex setups are a lot of times as
common, if not more so, on all sorts of things like serial port sand
headless boxes

> Deprecated with plans to remove or deprecated = not recommended but
> will keep around?

Deprecated with the eventual plan that text mode exists only for
a) Get you into VNC or X
b) Kickstart progress and
c) A "delete everything, install with the defaults, no questions really
asked" mode (maybe)

Jeremy