Easier installation with Anaconda

[Andrew Farris]

Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
> Lubomir Kundrak pisze:
>> On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 21:17 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Anaconda is great user-friendly installer, but it lacks some less
>>> popular functionality.
>>>
>>> When Anaconda is removing Linux partitions and creating new, it should
>>> read some files from that partition.
>>>
>>> * /etc/passwd: to see what users were used (optionally setting new
>>> password and permissions for existent /home directory on partition which
>>> is not going to be removed)
>>>
>>> * /etc/modprobe.conf: to see what options were enabled
>>>
>>> * /etc/modules: to see what modules were autoloaded ie. in Ubuntu
>>>
>>> This probably wouldn't be possible for F9's Anaconda, but that changes
>>> will be valuable for next releases too.
>>
>> ...and list of packages that were installed and also their
>> configurations. Dude, what's the point of reinstalling?
> 
> Understand - some people are migrating from one distro to another, or 
> they created very big mess and need to recreate their system.
> 
Duplication of their mess is not necessarily a good idea, and a user that made a 
mess may not know why it has become a mess.  They may think keeping prior config 
is a good idea when it is not.

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