RFE: Choose additional/new packages during upgrade

[Jef Spaleta]

Sean Earp wrote:
> When upgrading an installation of Fedora (ie from RH 9), you do not 
> have the option of selecting any additional packages. Anaconda just 
> upgrades the packages that you already have installed. Wouldn't it 
> make sense to have the option of choosing additional/new packages 
> during the upgrade process?

No...absolutely not.

What makes sense...is taking as much of the package selections as
possible OUT of anaconda and streamling what anaconda does as much as
possible. It makes more since to push as much package selection into the
a workable "second stage" segment of an install or upgrade..after you
reboot back into you actually system environment...so you have access to
the full hardware again..and the full system memory..instead of being
limited to what anaconda can do inside a ramdisk.  Package selection in
anaconda is duplicating the function of things like r-c-packages, that
become available once you are rebooting into your functional system.
Instead of pushing more package selection into anaconda itself, maybe
there is room to run firstboot again after an upgrade as a means to get
to more configuration including adding additional packages.

-jef"the goal should be to minimize the length of time one spends booted
into the install cd's ramdisk, so you can get to the real system
environment as quickly as possible"spaleta
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