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