will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 07/06/2012 07:10 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
> I attempted installation using Fedora-20120703-x86_64-916dfe7-netinst.iso and
> found that it only allows choosing one desktop. I normally install both Gnome
> and KDE at this point and asked about it on #anaconda. Dlehman it was not
> planned to support that, and regarding installing other desktops afterwards and
> choosing between them at the login prompt, he said that wasn't up to them, but
> personally he frowned on that practice.

I agree with David the installer should not support that and also frown 
upon that practice.

I also think that once the novice end user has choose in his DE in the 
installer he should only be presented with packages/applications 
targeted specifically for that desktop environment if he should be 
presented with options to install additional packages et al...

> If it's not possible to have more than one desktop installed, it makes changing
> desktops much harder (clean install?) and someone who doesn't like Gnome Shell,
> for example, may well decide to change distros rather than try a different
> desktop. Personally, I use Gnome, but install KDE just to have the KDE packages
> available while using Gnome. Would this become impossible?
>

I dont think this argument holds much water.

Novice end users would be more likely to download an alternative ( 
encase of an live cd/usb ) from the same distribution and try it out 
since they are already familiar with the the process of downloading and 
( or re)installing the OS and experience users that want to run multiple 
DE's can already install another one once they have successfully 
finished installing the distribution.

JBG