[criteria update] Package set

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Sep 19 01:31:34 UTC 2012


Adam Williamson (awilliam at redhat.com) said: 
> On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 22:38 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > drago01 (drago01 at gmail.com) said: 
> > > > There is no default 'package set' now (by design, it's not a bug).
> > > 
> > > This *is* a bug IMO. We should have reasonable defaults and allow the
> > > user to change them if he wants. But we should not force the user to
> > > make choices that way. A user would have to know the differences
> > > between the options to be able to make an informed decision. In case
> > > the user has this knowledge he/she can open the spoke and change the
> > > selection. In case the user doesn't it might more or less end up in a
> > > random/wrong change.
> > 
> > If the user can't make a choice, they should be using a live image, IMO;
> > the entire point of the DVD install has always been that it provided
> > a choice of things for the user to install. Instead of the prior DVD,
> > which offered a variety of co-dependent groups for the user to slice
> > and dice at will (often finding new ways to break their system)
> 
> Often? Citation appears to be needed.

Quick search pulls:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674771
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742618

as examples for the case of 'installing a desktop without any fonts'.

Bill


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