[anaconda][master][PATCH] Remove the headless Anaconda option

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Thu Jun 19 13:42:46 UTC 2014


> Looks like the headless option might be another dead option (pun intended).
> On the wiki it is described as:
> 
> "Specify that the machine being installed onto does not have any display hardware, and that anaconda should not probe for it."
> 
> But as far as I can tell it does not prevent any display hardware probing and basically works
> like yet another "use textmode" switch.
> So I would say we can just drop it to simplify the displayMode configuration a bit.
> 
> Another option would to make it do the same thing the "text" option does
> and document that it is just an alternative name for the "text" option.

Yeah, looks like more historical cruft to me.  I'm glad someone's
working on weeding all this out.

- Chris


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