Fedora 6 a bit more automated install

[Gianluca Sforna]

On 3/11/07, Lamont Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 11 March 2007 12:20pm, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > On 3/11/07, Baris Cicek <baris at teamforce.name.tr> wrote:
> > > After that point installation start writing to disk. Before that
> > > everything is happening without any change on the hdd.
> > >
> > > It's a good pointer for user that after that moment s/he is starting to
> > > change his partitions. AFAIK, after this point anaconda do formatting of
> > > the partitions. One last click won't annoy user much, but losing whole
> > > partitions might.
> >
> > It would not annoy the user _IF_ the depsolving step was faster.
> >
> > I think this is the reason why I saw mails in the past with the same
> > request: a fairly long step (depsolving) followed by another long step
> > (actual installation) sounds naturally like they should be merged.
> >
> > IIRC the reason for this is that the depsolving phase could fail
> > depending on the package selection and the selected repos; I still
> > fail to see whay the last "Next" could not be skipped automatically
> > when no such problem arise though...
>
> In that case, the "After clicking 'Next' your partitions will be altered"
> thing will need to be mentioned before depsolving.  If depsolve fails, then
> bounce back to the package select screen with a (hopefully) useful error
> message.
>
+1


> Of course, if my suggestion of how to implement this change were adopted, then
> when depsolving does fail, experienced users/admins might be frustrated that
> they walked away thinking there wasn't going to be any more interaction and
> it should have installed when they come back and see an error message.  Then
> again, that's always true.

If there is an error in the depsolving phase I don't see any
difference from the current situation: you should go back and fix what
went wrong.

The only difference is when no problems arise from depsolving, that
is, no more interactions are needed