0.94 first impressions

[Craig Ringer]

  >>Of course I'm pretty fanatical about this concept - I'd like to
>>make anaconda install just enough software so you can then reboot
>>and run redhat-config-packages to choose all the remaining software
>>you want. That way we could put all our effort into that tool which
>>you will use many times, instead of the installer which you use
>>once every many many months.
> 
> This would seriously rock, don't give up cheerleading it.  The whole 
> worship of the installer god seems to me a false religion.

Absolutely. Stuff the do-it-once install - the use-it-forever management 
tools are rather more critical, and when you can avoid duplication of 
effort as well (eg package management and installation), it's really 
win-win.

That need not mean an overly cut-down, hard to use intaller - only a 
minimalistic one that need not discover, say, if you have a DVD burner 
or sound card when it will never need those things to do it's job. The 
number of times I've wished the RH installer could partition the HDD, 
dump a copy of it's self on the disk, write an MBR and reboot...

Craig Ringer