On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:46:18PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 23:58 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
Be it as it may, both items need resurrection, and it looks like both will be back.
The everything install will NOT be coming back in the UI. Globbing will be supported for the %packages section of kickstart which, as a side effect.
missing half a sentence or was there a "which" too much?
Please do everyone a favor by reading the (extremely long and tedious) previous thread on this subject rather than continuing to beat a dead horse.
Personally I'm already happy if the kickstart input support will be restored, but the thread is 243 messages long drifting around into off-topic threads (at least wrt to the install-all option) and the couple of messages I picked I hoped to be revealing (I used the author to choose) didn't disclose the real benefit of not allowing everything installs anymore.
It wouldn't hurt to summarize the reasoning in a sentence. If the technical bits are there (which obviously will be if it will be supported for kickstart input), then why deprive the user from using the gui/tui to do that? How should the typical user perform an effective everything install? Should he start learning kickstart?
It's not a dead horse, there is demand for this feature, and the 243 mail thread on fedora-test-list will be repeated in larger scales on fedora-list once FC5 is out, and will drive the last of us out of fedora-list.