From release notes for FC5T3 (web)

[Rahul Sundaram]

gb spam wrote:

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>>On another list I asked two simple questions of the anti faction:
>>1) Would it be a big deal for the coders to reinstate the "Everything install"
>>button?
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>Rahul said a number of times that the cost was high.  When asked to
>quantify what high meant, he neglected to answer.  My suspicion is
>that it would be high on pride.
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Nothing to do with pride since I did give you the answer.  Its a choice 
between spending time on the list discussions or go back and do actual 
work and people have pointed out to me ( by swearing at me offlist) that 
the balance currently is tilted towards discussions. I have already 
explained several times on the list that Anaconda code has been 
rewritten to use yum and this feature has to be *reimplemented* now and 
the Anaconda developers told me that the code to reimplement this would 
be significant and they dont see enough merits to do so.  Combine that 
with the effect of this "feature" and the time spend in fixing and  hand 
holding new users who choose to use this option innocently and we land 
up with a high cost I cited.

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>>2) Was there still an objection if the button were hidden, and accompanied by
>>large disclaimers?
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>>Not one of the vociferous anti-everything faction responded - this was
>>reposted three times during a very long debate on the issue. My conclusion is
>>that the decision had been taken, and the fact that numerous users disagreed
>>with the decision was of no account. The debate was never truly a debate -
>>the issue was decided without end-user input. So, I repeat, we're dealing
>>with control-freaks - it's a bad sign for Fedora, in my view.
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Are the developers control freaks if they dont see implement every 
feature you wanted?. Contrary to perception, I also discussed option 2). 
The problem with hidden features (such as the previous expert option in 
Anaconda)  is that they provide a alternative code path that is rarely 
tested and turns out broken in subtle ways every now and then.  This is 
a merit based system in which people who do the actual work win in the 
end. 


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Rahul