fc5: install everything?

Roger Heflin rheflin at atipa.com
Tue May 9 13:21:12 UTC 2006


Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:20 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 15:10, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> It's not a bug, it is a design decision.
>>>>
>>>>> This is a user list...whining here is merely pissing in the wind.
>>>> That's only true if the designers don't care enough about users
>>>> to pay attention to the whining.
>>> Its not possible or efficient for developers and designers to read all
>>> the mails in the fedora-list to gather feedback. 
>> OK, but does that differ greatly from what I said?  A lot of
>> decisions seem to be made with no thought about the real-world
>> effects.  For example if someone wanted to build PCs with
>> fedora pre-installed, what might the user expect to find on
>> it?
>>
> Whatever the "builder" chose to install. Doh!
> 

Which the safest choice is "install everything" since the builder
does not know exactly how the customer is going to use the machine.

                             Roger




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