Possible deprecation/removal of Initial Setup from Fedora
by Jiri Konecny
Hello everyone,
We (anaconda team) are considering discontinuation of the Anaconda's
Initial Setup[0] tool, which is not related to Gnome Initial Setup. Here
is a list of the reasons:
* The relationship between the installer and the Initial Setup is very
fragile. It is easy to break the Initial Setup by changes in the
installer or break the installer while we are trying to fix the support
for the Initial Setup. The shared code is complex as a result and it
complicates development and maintenance of both projects.
* As we had higher priority items to work on, the codebase is not in an
ideal state and the upstream repository doesn't even have a proper
automated CI. Fixing all these issues would take a lot of our resources
that we would like to spent on improving the installer instead.
* The Initial Setup tool is unnecessarily complicated. Since it shares
code with the installer, it has to adapt to many limitations and
requirements of the installation environment. It doesn't use the full
potential of the installed system, because the installer can't. It
postpones all actions until the end of the configuration, because the
installer has to. It doesn't offer the best user experience for the
first boot configuration, because it is designed to reuse parts of an
installer. It drags Anaconda into the installed systems.
* There are already alternatives: Gnome Initial Setup,
systemd-firstboot, and preparation for KDE solution of initial setup. So
the ecosystem changed from the time when Initial Setup was introduced.
We think that these alternatives are able to give you a better solution.
Before taking any action, we would like to understand your use-cases to
find out how we can help you to make the transition smoother and also to
find out how much time you would need for migration.
Is Anaconda Initial Setup important for your project or workflow? What
functionality is absolutely necessary for you? Do you use the text mode
or the graphical mode? Are you aware of any alternatives? Is there
anything that would prevent you from migrating to one of the proposed
alternatives? Also please feel free to share this mail to any relevant
groups.
[0]: https://github.com/rhinstaller/initial-setup
Best Regards,
Anaconda team
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