custom package selection

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Thu Jul 24 15:59:57 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:29, Jack Bowling wrote:
> ** Reply to message from csieh <csieh at fnal.gov> on Thu, 24 Jul 2003 09:47:14 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> > How about enabling the "Select individual packages" but only for the 
> > "expert" install choice.  Then it would be there for those that need it 
> > and for those that don't it would not confuse them.
> 
> And if you carry this out for all us old cantakerous whiners to the max,
>  give the "experts" back their install options such as firstboot
> runlevel selection, rhgb=no, etc. Hey, the "experts" is there for maybe, 
> oh say, 1% of users, right?

No, because the vast majority of people end up using expert mode because
they think it gives them some advantage.  Realistically it hasn't done
anything more than prompt for driver disk always and allow you to
install to removable media for nearly two years now.  

Jeremy





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