On Oct 1, 2012, at 3:04 AM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
On 10/01/2012 06:38 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> I'm very hesitant to expand release requirements related to anaconda for F18.
Should it not be sufficient for us to have our release criteria be on par what other os
installers ( Like Windows or OS-X ) are capable of doing?
Not necessarily.
I don't know what's involved in getting anaconda to do a "point and
shoot" installation to a destination of my choice (a partition, a volume, or a mount
point). Until I do, I would not expand the release requirements until I know the
consequences.
Windows and Mac OS X installers are very rudimentary when it comes to partitioning; the OS
X installer doesn't even provide a UI for partitioning or volume formatting. It's
purely point and shoot, to a single partition. Would it be nice to have that in
Fedora's installer? I think it might be nice, but not a requirement, because there
probably are quite a few users who will designate a disk or partition for Fedora, and
should be able to simply point at that and have the Fedora installer slice it up into
whatever additional partitions are needed. I don't think, by default, disclosure is
needed either textually or visually, what is about to be done with that partition.
Chris Murphy