will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

[David Lehman]

On Mon, 2012-07-09 at 10:21 -0600, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> And I would further posit that, since the position has been taken that
> you can override all of this post-install, the potential complexity is
> only reduced in the installation process. The installed system remains
> just as complex and would still require (in proper methodology) testing
> of all components in the overall repository in any case. Thus the
> overall workload on developers is not really reduced at all.

Installation is the only part of this where my opinion carries any
weight, if even there. This is why I said I personally frown upon the
practice of doing this post-install. If it were up to me, everyone would
be forced to make a decision and it would be impossible to have multiple
desktop environments installed within a given OS installation.

> 
> So we have a proposed change that provides little benefit to perhaps a
> small group of developers on what should be shared components
> (Installer / Package Manager) which results in a loss of function to
> users, and increases the risk of bifurcating the distro on at least a
> social level (if not a technical one).
> 
> In all (quoting "Ghost Busters") this just sounds like "...an
> extraordinarily bad idea".

Sounds to me like hyperbole.