Follow-ups from previous board meetings:
Jon Stanley
jonstanley at gmail.com
Sat Aug 14 00:49:49 UTC 2010
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Jeremy Katz <katzj at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Unless you freeze everything that anaconda depends on, then this will likely
> end up being less than fruitful. It's been tried in the past when anaconda
> had more "roll its own" vs "use system stuff". In a non-trivial number of
> cases, the reason that things break close to the freeze in anaconda is that
> something else changed.
100% agreed. This was really more of an off the cuff remark than
anything else. I think we've made great strides in getting anaconda to
use system stuff instead of internal reimplementations of them, and
I'd hate to see all of that forward progress thrown away[1].
-Jon
[1] Except for NetworkManager. It has no business in the install environment :)
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