On Jan 15, 2008 11:10 PM, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > forgive me if this has been discussed before, I couldn't find mention > of it in the archives... > > What's the problem with having an installer option such as "advanced" > somewhere in the user setup section that would allow a user to choose > what the default environment will be
This has been discussed before, at the Summit in fact. The short of it is that an advanced installation path quickly gets complicated. You start with one installation option, and before you know it, you end up with a thousand. Dave and his team, from what I gather, are focused on a simple, great install experience foremost. That is what they have the need for. While Dave may not be personally interested nor have the time (due to resource allocation) to support a more "advanced installation path", from talking with him, it is clear that they have intentionally left "hooks" in the install code so that others can implement this functionality if they so desire. Remember that caiman is just an installer, it doesn't know anything about "GNU" or "BSD" for that matter. You need to talk with the distributions using the installer if you want to influence choices they are making. > the only other option I can see is to fork indiana to get a legacy- > compatible version Or just use the distribution constructor...not difficult. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
