Amen! I was actually looking forward to custom selecting packages, since I was doing a clean install on a new drive. My last install I was a newbie and learned just how much trash I should get rid of. Needless to say I was VERY disappointed with the install. Even though I chose to custom select packages and do my best, the installer took on a mind of its own, installing extra packages left unselected and ignoring packages that I DID want to install. Later, from the add/remove programs GUI, when I tried installing packages from disk, the GUI requests "Fedora Core 1" disk 1 (or whatever). After putting the CD in, the package update exits with an error. I think this is because the ISO's have "FC-1 i386" as the CD name, not "Fedora Core 1" as it should have been. I had to use yum for the new packages I wanted to install. What a headache! ----- Original Message ----- From: "David C. Hart" <dch@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Fedora-List" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:36 AM Subject: Re: No Full Control Install! > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 14:00, Doug Stewart wrote: > > > You must not have been paying attention to the fedora-test-list. > > > > No I was not. > > > The thinking goes (and someone from RH correct me if I'm wrong) is that > > anaconda is the wrong place to be doing package selection. Eventually, > > FC should just get enough of a system up and running for the users to be > > able to select/install packages from a nice, X-enabled FirstBoot situation. > > . No offense but that seems misguided. > > Under many circumstances, that requires installing and then deleting > packages that one doesn't need or want. In other circumstances I have to > delete RPMs from the database to prevent them from being "upgraded." > This complicates things considerably. > > I hate to say this but SOMEONE "FIXED" WHAT WEREN'T BROKEN. I cannot > fathom what POSSIBLE benefit accrues to anyone by eliminating this > feature. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
