Bring back configurability in expert mode

Stephen Smoogen smoogen at lanl.gov
Thu Jul 24 16:45:02 UTC 2003


As a former Red Hat Support person.. I can say that we used to spend
MANY weeks with MANY customers dealing with problems that only showed up
in expert mode because the new customer wanted to see everything. (Of
course the reasons we spent so much time tracking things down was
because they rarely told us they did it in expert mode.)

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 10:21, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 12:11, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > The installation has gotten "simpler" for desktop installs.
> > 
> > Please re-add those options when starting anaconda in "expert" mode.
> > 
> > This should make both camps happy.
> 
> No, because it adds weirdo cases that only happen in expert mode and
> then *NO ONE* mentions that they're using expert mode when they hit
> problems.  I spent most of a week tracking down something that only
> happened in expert mode once just because expert mode used to make
> bizarre assumptions about things that didn't make sense or get tested.
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
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