On Jan 1, 2014, at 8:40 PM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 1, 2014, at 6:17 PM, Rahul Sundaram <methe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> HI
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
>>
>> The proposal is intended to help the non technical users of Fedora, and I do
>> not see them using kickstart, so that is not a solution.
>>
>> Yes but non technical users wouldn't care to navigate the UI you are
>> proposing either. The entire proposal only satisfies a very small small
>> niche for users receiving root mail and want to control exactly how they get
>> it during installation itself.
>
> Why put a feature in the GUI installer to add a user to /etc/aliases for
> getting system mail messages when there isn't an MTA? Since the MTA will need
> to be installed, edit /etc/aliases at that time? This seems to add complexity
> for minimal value.
>
> The installer does indeed already have a massive pile of options that many
> non-technical users don't care to navigate. It's even so much that technical
> users who QA the installer don't even have the time to go through all of the
> permutations to thoroughly test it.
>
> I suggest if you're going to ask the installer team for features that you at
> least offer to write patches, but I think it's not very likely to be exposed
> in GUI, to me it sounds like an edge case request.
I was saying this to the list at large, it was not explicitly directed to Rahul
- that wouldn't make sense considering what he wrote right before my response!
Sorry for making it slightly confusing.
Chris Murphy
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