will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

[Richard Ryniker]

>to prevent the user doing something silly like trying to install GNOME
>but forgetting the X server and fonts.

I think the Package Manager copes with this very well, especially when
the installation source is a release DVD.  Unlike the network
repositories, which can become inconsistant as individual packages are
updated, the DVD presumably has gone through freeze and test cycles that
greatly reduce, and hopefully eliminate, cases where some sets of
packages cannot be installed because of unsatisfied or antagonistic
depencencies.

If a user makes silly choices about what to include during initial Fedora
installation, the result should be no worse than some missing
applications, or extra files on disk and possibly additional choices that
have to be made during use because multiple environments have been
installed.

Perhaps it is the GNOME/X-server example, which seems to be precisely
what package dependencies handle, that obscures the point you want to
make.