custom package selection

[Panu Matilainen]

Quoting Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>:

> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 07:44, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > I've pretty much come to the conclusion that the severn installer has been
> 
> > dumbed down to the point that the only way to get a functional install that
> 
> > does what I want is to use kickstart
> 
> It's far easier to get the system to a state that works with the
> installer and then allow configuration in a normal environment. 
> Maintaining lots of functionality within the installer is a nitemare for
> debugging -- it's far easier to figure out why things go wrong on the
> installed system.  

Amen. Having done my share of tweaking (some environtment-specific stuff, 
changing defaults and other little silly bits) to anaconda at work: breaking it 
is oh-so-easy and debugging stuff at install time is a) not exactly easy b) 
time consuming. My full sympathy for the change towards doing stuff post-
install time...

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    - Panu -