On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 07:59 +1200, Martin Langhoff wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Jeremy Katz <katzj(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>> A "textonly" splitoff of anaconda and anaconda runtime that drop the
X
>> dependencies would shed ~200 MB of dependencies, and make F9 a better
>> fit for embedded deployments, making the XS image smaller and nicer
>> along the way... hint, hint... :-)
>
> NAK because the text mode installer is deprecated in major ways --
> there's just no way to support the feature set that people want from the
> installer.
Interesting. I always understood the text installer would be easier to
support in alt arches and embedded devices, etc. How do you plan to
support installs over serial port on headless boxes?
Kickstart and vnc both exist. Text mode limits you to 80x24, lots of
problems supporting non-Latin languages, no input methods, poor
toolkits, .. the list could go on for a while. You just can't provide
the richness of user experience that's really needed to do some of the
complex things that people want to do with an install in a text mode
environment. And those sorts of complex setups are a lot of times as
common, if not more so, on all sorts of things like serial port sand
headless boxes
Deprecated with plans to remove or deprecated = not recommended but
will keep around?
Deprecated with the eventual plan that text mode exists only for
a) Get you into VNC or X
b) Kickstart progress and
c) A "delete everything, install with the defaults, no questions really
asked" mode (maybe)
Jeremy