Bring back configurability in expert mode
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Thu Jul 24 17:48:48 UTC 2003
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:25, Douglas Stewart wrote:
> From what I've gathered, the split between rhlp and rhel is one of
> support, namely: corporate customers desire active support on a RedHat
> product, they can invest in RHEL. If they don't care about support and
> are comfortable performing their own maintenance, they're free to use
> RHLP. Am I right so far?
That doesn't mean I want to ignore bug reports. Remember, we're going
for robustness here, which won't happen without fixing bugs :) And a
lot of people who end up using Red Hat Linux will still report bugs and
appreciate responses and work towards solving their problems. Without
that, what's the use?
> So, if that's the case, then (while I see your points), I think the
> issues raised by RedHat employees are bunk. RH isn't going to be
> "supporting" RHLP. There's no expectation of such. The calls RH
> support desk employees will be fielding will be from RHEL users only
> (correct?). And, since it's been admitted that RHEL is similar to, yet
> not exactly the same as the intended RHLP distro, then what's the
> problem? Leave the dummy installer in RHEL and give those who want the
> "expert" mode exactly what they want in RHLP's installer.
And maintain two installers? That sounds like a horrible waste of
already limited resources. I'd rather be able to share the effort and
spend the time I save by only having one installer to work on so that I
can work on other things too. Especially because installers are boring,
really... you run them once and that's it. It's a lot better to have
cool tools to use *after* you've installed :)
Cheers,
Jeremy
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