will F18 allow simultaneous installation of more than one desktop?

Dariusz J. Garbowski thuforuk at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Jul 10 12:34:31 UTC 2012


On 10/07/12 03:43 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 07/09/2012 11:58 PM, David Lehman wrote:
>> The simple truth is that there are a lot of reasons for organizing
>> things into a desktop (or base spin/flavor/variant) and add-ons. One
>> thing it enables is a unification of the current spins with the non-live
>> OS install so they don't have different output products.
>>
>> If you want a second or third desktop environment, great. Install it
>> some way other than in anaconda's GUI.  I also provided two alternatives
>> very early on in this discussion: use kickstart for install or use the
>> package manager of your choice, post-install. I said this in my first or
>> second post on this subject. I should have ignored the follow-ups.
>> Hopefully next time I will.
>>
>
> Agreed.
>
> I personally think we should drop the releng dvd altogether and move to a more spin specific
> installation where the spins community themselves have complete control over the package selection (
> if any et all ) being offered to their target user base with potentially the option for "advanced"
> users to install addition packages online.

Making them especially happy when their network connection sucks or they don't have network 
connection whatsoever but are able to get DVD installer... They'll love Fedora for this new 
approach. Don't assume that everybody has 100 Mbits pipe with no caps at home.





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