Dave Miner wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> Frank Ludolph wrote: >>> zhongyuan sun - Sun Microsystems - Beijing China wrote: >>>> Thanks, I think more display screens will be added to the configuration >>>> function like config name service(NIS/DNS....) >>>> >>> On the GUI side there are no new screens or functionality. The >>> interactions will only be added to the text-based side which I'm >>> working on. >> >> Why does the text-based installer need to diverge? Should not the >> same reasonings apply (largely) to the text installer as they do to >> the GUI installer? That is, do you really want to revisit >> configuration hell in the install process? >> >> Duplicating functionality already provided by the system, or that >> really belongs at first boot seems like a dangerous road... >> > > The text installer is targeted at server installation, and a key > requirement there is to support static network configuration. How much > is required is still to be decided (NIS and so on seem, to me, to be > unnecessary for the DDU use case). > > In the GUI scenario, the Network Manager application already covers > this, anyway.
Yes, the static network configuration makes sense. I was more concerned about the feature creep of naming services, etc. I was a huge fan of the Caiman's original focus on keeping as much configuration as possible out of the installer so I got a bit edgy when I saw that being unraveled :P Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
