Regarding install options

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Oct 21 00:37:26 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 22:28 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > Yes, since removing the install classes, the bugs against these classes
> > being wrong in one way shape or form have all but disappeared.
> 
> Sure. So let's remove the kernel, it will instantly "fix" 993 open bugs. :-D
> 
> Removing something just because it is not perfect is rarely a good solution, 
> usually it's better to have a buggy feature than not to have it at all.

It wasn't about removing "bugs".  It was about the fact that it was
fundamentally the wrong sort of place to put such a question.  People's
opinions of partitioning vs packaging vs how to install the bootloader,
as it turns out, aren't heavily tied together.  So rather than try to
give an option to preset multiple later options (as well as hide some of
them), it's better to just make the later options more accessible.
Which is what we've attempted to do.

Jeremy




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