Tech Spec, System Installer

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 16:14 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2014, at 2:28 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > You might need to provide more details and background in posts like
> > this, Chris, considering the context. I don't think the desktop team is
> > as familiar with the ins and outs of installer partitioning as the
> > anaconda and QA teams. They don't deal with it every day. :)
> 
> OK I'm not sure how or what to provide that wouldn't also be obscenely verbose.
> 
> My premise is that the present installer paths (Automatic and Manual)
> do not constitute limiting the user interaction to the minimum. But
> maybe all or most WG members consider the installer already meets
> these requirements?
> 
> For comparison, by at least two orders of magnitude, the Windows and
> OS X installers are more minimalist. They each offer a handful of
> installed outcomes (including dual boot), whereas Anaconda
> Automatic/guided path alone offers dozens of outcomes, and the
> Manual/custom paths offers hundreds possibly infinite.

It would help for this audience to quantify exactly what 'automatic' and
'manual' *are*, and the range of choices they currently expose.
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