Bring back configurability in expert mode

[Douglas Stewart]

I take your point(s).  Maintaining two codebases would indeed be the 
pinnacle of suck. *grin*

I guess, in theory, that there is little practical difference (apart 
from a reboot) between installing all packages via the installer and 
installing a minimum number of packages and then confronting a user with 
a package selection screen the next time the machine is booted.  
Should've seen this coming with the way RH9 handled things, shouldn't I?

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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs 

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Jeremy Katz wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:25, Douglas Stewart wrote:
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>> From what I've gathered, the split between rhlp and rhel is one of 
>>support, namely: corporate customers desire active support on a RedHat 
>>product, they can invest in RHEL.  If they don't care about support and 
>>are comfortable performing their own maintenance, they're free to use 
>>RHLP.  Am I right so far?
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>That doesn't mean I want to ignore bug reports.  Remember, we're going
>for robustness here, which won't happen without fixing bugs :)   And a
>lot of people who end up using Red Hat Linux will still report bugs and
>appreciate responses and work towards solving their problems.  Without
>that, what's the use?
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>>So, if that's the case, then (while I see your points), I think the 
>>issues raised by RedHat employees are bunk.  RH isn't going to be 
>>"supporting" RHLP.  There's no expectation of such.  The calls RH 
>>support desk employees will be fielding will be from RHEL users only 
>>(correct?).  And, since it's been admitted that RHEL is similar to, yet 
>>not exactly the same as the intended RHLP distro, then what's the 
>>problem?  Leave the dummy installer in RHEL and give those who want the 
>>"expert" mode exactly what they want in RHLP's installer.
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>And maintain two installers?  That sounds like a horrible waste of
>already limited resources.  I'd rather be able to share the effort and
>spend the time I save by only having one installer to work on so that I
>can work on other things too.  Especially because installers are boring,
>really...  you run them once and that's it.  It's a lot better to have
>cool tools to use *after* you've installed :)
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>Cheers,
>
>Jeremy
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