interminal cd swapping with system-config-packages

Rahul Sundaram rahulsundaram at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 18:37:51 UTC 2004


On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 06:21:00 -0600, Basil Copeland <blcjr2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this qualifies as a bug or not (didn't see anything
> quite on point in bugzilla), but a user posted something to
> fedoraforum that I've noticed also: being asked interminably (so it
> seems) to swap CDs when adding major packages (like the full gnome
> desktop).  Since the installer (anaconda?) can figure out a list of
> packages to install, and install them from the CD's sequentially,
> without ever having to go back to a previous CD, why cannot
> system-config-packages do the same?  Having to swap between cd's 1, 2,
> and 3 twenty or thirty times is a joke, and strikes me as evidence of
> an application that is either broke, or poorly conceived.
> 
> Should this problem be bugzilla'd?

yes. if you are in doubt just file it and let the developer comment on
the issue rather than letting it on the limbo


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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram




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