i have to *choose* between graphical desktop and S/W dev?

[David Cantrell]

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On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Adam Williamson wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 09:50 -1000, David Cantrell wrote:
>
>> The names of the tasks maybe need more description.  The reason they are radio
>> buttons instead of checkboxes is that the choices indicate preset lists of yum
>> package groups to install.
>
> I may be dim, but why does that mean they have to be radio buttons?
> Can't anaconda just sum the list of package groups if you pick more than
> one option? I don't see any intrinsic reason why the user _shouldn't_ be
> allowed to configure a system that's both a Graphical Desktop and a
> Software Development system, say.

That's just the way we implemented it.  The driving force behind these
decisions was to make things simple for the user.  When presented with check
boxes at this point, we found most users would either (a) leave the default
choices in place and continue or (b) check them all for fear of missing
something.

If you remember older releases of Red Hat Linux, you could select Workstation,
Server, or some such list of system types.  That was basically the same idea
for package selection.

That said, I'm not trying to defend the radio buttons, just explain what they
are and how they work.  Check boxes make perfect sense, but before just
changing them over, I would first say we should really look at the tasks as
defined now and see if they should be changed, expanded, or reduced.

- -- 
David Cantrell <dcantrell at redhat.com>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI

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