On 19/06/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Chris Brown wrote:

>
> That's a pretty lame argument. If I did that I'd still be running my BBC
> Micro.

I don't know what relationship there exists between what you run and
what choices the installer exposes. If you going to argue you need to do
so in more generic terms.

...and you in slightly less patronising ones. Wading in advising people to "pick one option and stick with it" smacks of narrow-mindedness and is an awful technical argument.

> I'm not running Gentoo am I?

How am I supposed to know that?

You're not and I imagined you'd realise that as the question was rhetorical and this is a Fedora list. I don't disagree that users can configure to meet their needs but when a discussion involves users saying "Yeah, that's the first thing I do after install" then being able to make it a default option is a good thing as its:

a) popular
b) one less thing to do on a fresh install

Debating both sides is good because it
allows to choose one as default. Fedora should evaluate the choices and
pick one as default.

I couldn't agree more.

There is no reason every choice should be exposed
by the installer.

Again agreed, but the _right_ choices should and it is only right that this discussion be considered a chance to debate those.

Installation documentation FYI is at
docs.fedoraproject.org and not in the wiki.

I know. Anaconda documentation is however.

Regards
Chris

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