Fedora Installation vs Red Hat 9

[Christoph Wickert]

Bill Anderson schrieb:

>On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 10:46, Adam Debus wrote:
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>>    I'd have to cast my vote for having "choose individual packages" back.
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>+1
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>It is far easier to add packages after install than remove them. Why
>should I *have* to spend extra time/space to stall stuff I am than going
>to remove?? 
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Yes, this is just like the Win2k/XP way, and to me it seems stupid.

>"Build a kickstart file.. " is usually followed by "after installing and
>removing...", Well, see above. Also, that assumes multiple identical
>installs.
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>Leave the option there.
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As somebody allready mentioned: Since "Select individual Packages" was 
disabled by default, there is no reason to remove this option, since 
it's no additional mouse click by default. Automatically resolving 
dependencies is ok for most users, but I liked it the old way (Options 
to leave alone, select automatically and to go back).

Onother topic are the dependencies. Doing a minimal install, you get 
spellchecking installed. Who needs a spellchecker on a minimal system, 
e.g. a server? Even if some funky php-features require it, I'll never 
use them. In this case spellchecking might be placed as an optional 
(meta)package into one (or more) categories, or, if  "Select individual 
packages" is back again it's ok to do it as default in the categories.
In RH9 kdenetwork depended on kdegames. Really good for a productive 
corperate network :-)
(not sure, if it's still like that in severn)

Just my humble opinion

Christoph Wickert