On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
On 02/22/2015 03:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
> Yes. Matthew already mentioned that. The exception is that the
> installer insists on root fs being formatted by the installer.
I see no problem with that. If I'm doing a clean install, that's what I
want anyway, and with today's machines, the amount of time it takes isn't
enough to worry about. (Or, of course, I can create the partitions ahead of
time, leaving them unformatted, and let anaconda do the formatting.)
One exception is root on Btrfs doesn't require a reformat, but it does
require a new subvolume (which are unique fs trees, with their own
inode list).
And for everyone, there are certainly bugs and some bad design in the
installer. This is not intentional but it's inevitable. That's why I
translate "more flexibility" into "aha! more bugs!" Every feature has
to justify the ensuing madness it'll create.
So file bugs, make your case concisely (although verbose how to
reproduce steps are best), and feel free to cc me in the bug report.
It really isn't likely, or as likely, to get polish without users
pointing out the warts.
And idea that's been floated for future work is getting blivet-gui
created layouts to more or less "plug-in" to Anaconda with minimal
user intervention. So you never know, you might get to have your cake
and eat it too.
--
Chris Murphy