I take your point(s). Maintaining two codebases would indeed be the
pinnacle of suck. *grin*
I guess, in theory, that there is little practical difference (apart
from a reboot) between installing all packages via the installer and
installing a minimum number of packages and then confronting a user with
a package selection screen the next time the machine is booted.
Should've seen this coming with the way RH9 handled things, shouldn't I?
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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:25, Douglas Stewart wrote:
> From what I've gathered, the split between rhlp and rhel is one of
>support, namely: corporate customers desire active support on a RedHat
>product, they can invest in RHEL. If they don't care about support and
>are comfortable performing their own maintenance, they're free to use
>RHLP. Am I right so far?
>
>
That doesn't mean I want to ignore bug reports. Remember, we're going
for robustness here, which won't happen without fixing bugs :) And a
lot of people who end up using Red Hat Linux will still report bugs and
appreciate responses and work towards solving their problems. Without
that, what's the use?
>So, if that's the case, then (while I see your points), I think the
>issues raised by RedHat employees are bunk. RH isn't going to be
>"supporting" RHLP. There's no expectation of such. The calls RH
>support desk employees will be fielding will be from RHEL users only
>(correct?). And, since it's been admitted that RHEL is similar to, yet
>not exactly the same as the intended RHLP distro, then what's the
>problem? Leave the dummy installer in RHEL and give those who want the
>"expert" mode exactly what they want in RHLP's installer.
>
>
And maintain two installers? That sounds like a horrible waste of
already limited resources. I'd rather be able to share the effort and
spend the time I save by only having one installer to work on so that I
can work on other things too. Especially because installers are boring,
really... you run them once and that's it. It's a lot better to have
cool tools to use *after* you've installed :)
Cheers,
Jeremy
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