No Full Control Install!

David C. Hart dch at TQMcube.com
Fri Nov 7 20:27:03 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:00, Gerry Tool wrote:

> You still have the option of a custom installation while doing a fresh
> install, and a good deal of individual package selection inside each of
> the groups that are listed in the custom choice menu.
> 
Not really. It's NOT the same as the individual package selection in
RH9. One should be able to pick and choose. Furthermore, the prior
method identified things that are hard to determine (iow - which RPM?).
For example, the various perl modules.

> Asking anaconda to allow you further choices during an UPGRADE is not
> reasonable when the result is an upgrade of just what you already have
> chosen by use before and you then have the opportunity to add anything
> you wish or remove the new version of whatever you have been using
> before.

I beg to disagree since one receives the 3rd Party Overlap warning which
is unresolvable.

Again I ask; What benefit could there possibly be to eliminating this
option for experienced users?





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