Anaconda: good work!

[Richard Hally]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:12 -0500, Dimi Paun wrote:
>> First impression: anaconda really rocks! This is a
>> very solid, pleasant installer.
> 
> Thanks -- always nice to see people not just flaming us :-P
> 

Very nice!!

> 
>>   * Disk change indicators
>>     Not sure it's worth the trouble, but it would be
>>     really nice if we got some ticks along the progress
>>     bar on when we can expect we will need to change
>>     the CDs. This would also tell someone which CDs are
>>     needed. It would help people a lot to manage their
>>     time during installs.
> 
> This comes up from time to time, I'm just not fully convinced of how
> useful it is.  One thing that we really probably need to look at for FC6
> is revisiting the time remaining algorithm.  It seems that every few
> releases we need to go in and really prod at it to make it more
> accurate.  One of the not measurable things which has a pretty big
> impact ends up being the various cache generators run as %post
> scriptlets of packages.
>> 
Just an idea, instead of/in addition would it be possible to show the 
number of packages and update that? e.g. [19/725] or what ever RPM has 
available.