On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 13:18 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Chris Lumens (clumens@redhat.com) said:
- downloads updates in parallel too
Package updates?
- Given that it's using yum, downloading multiple things in parallel
would need to be fixed there. 2) If it means downloading packages in the background while it does other tasks, given that package selection is the final task in the current workflow, it would require reordering the workflow to be beneficial. (Which becomes a memory usage tradeoff.)
I believe the Ubuntu installer under discussion is the live installer. Like Fedora, there is no package selection involved there. Ubuntu gains considerable simplicity by having a separate installer app for live images and making that its default installer - I'm no expert, but I think the 'advanced' installer you can use for network installs and custom package selection and LVM and RAID and all that stuff is essentially Debian's installer, and is a completely different experience to the Ubuntu installer.
So, we could follow this same path and make an anaconda-live which would be a considerably simplified subset of anaconda and could gain in parallelization and simplification and stuff, but we'd be duplicating a lot of effort then and we'd have no handy 'upstream' installer to fall back on for more complex cases, as Ubuntu does.