test2 initial reactions

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Sep 26 19:23:31 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 13:12, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> > I think it makes more sense for interactive use to get
> > through the install quickly w/o alot of questions
> 
>  Individual package selection has always been an option that was skipped by 
> default. So speed of installation has nothing to do with deleting this 
> functionality.

Which just put it off the beaten path and less likely to be noticed
quickly when it broke.  I had to rework quite a bit of the backend
package handling code in anaconda to handle the ability to install both
i386 and x86_64 packages on AMD64 (and similarly on other arches), which
was then going to require a rework and a pretty large rethink of how the
individual package selection worked.  Rather than spend time on that, we
punted it out and will just get it right for redhat-config-packages
(instead of having to do it in two different places).  

Finite time + infinite amounts of work == some stuff gets punted

Plus, there's the whole "options don't come for free" argument which
Havoc has written about a few times.

Cheers,

Jeremy





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