Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Dec 3 04:12:07 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 14:31 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> In many many years of installing all kinds of linux distros,
> I have never encountered a more baffling and cryptic screen
> than the one I ran into when I made the attempt to install
> Fedora 18 Beta from the DVD image:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882542
> 
> This has got to be the result of a group of maniacs
> giving each other feedback about how great this design is
> when they all know what everything means because they
> were there when it grew.
> 
> Coming along after the fact and seeing it for the first
> time, I can't tell what on earth it is trying to convey,
> and I'm certainly not going to randomly try things when
> I'm potentially destroying the disks on my primary system
> if I interpret some part of this cryptic nonsense
> incorrectly.

Please, keep this kind of hyperbole off test at . It's bad enough on
devel at . (And yes, I know I'm guilty from time to time, I don't feel
proud of it).

If you have concrete suggestions for the design, provide them in a
constructive manner. Refer to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Hall_Monitor_Policy . Unnecessary attacks
on people who are working extremely hard are not wanted here and are
counterproductive.
-- 
Adam Williamson
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