Anaconda: good work!

[Chris Lumens]

> I have to agree that the new installer is very nice.
> But despite this I really wish you will apply some bugfixes
> to anaconda and release it in updates. This of course does
> not help with FC5, but it will help those who use anaconda
> to make new distros or respins such as I plan to do (either
> official or unofficial).
> 
> The complete lack of updates to anaconda in FC4 bugged me,
> but I was too late in the cycle to make you reconsider.
> This time around I hope you will atleast take obvious
> bugfixes and maintain the FC5 anaconda atleast for a
> little while. I'm not asking for new features, only fixes.

We can't really do this easily.  Making a new anaconda means making new
first and second stage images, which means making new CD and DVD images,
which means a huge headache for mirrors and for keeping track of all
these versions of images floating around.

One thing we can look into is the possibility of providing an
updates.img from time to time that rolls up fixes, but this has its own
set of problems.  Doing something like that will make debugging in the
future much harder because we'll have to ask people what updates they
might be using in their installation when they report bugs.  I can just
see all sorts of problems resulting from that.

The installer is special.

- Chris