David Zeuthen wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 22:10 +0530, Rahul wrote:
David Zeuthen wrote:
[1] : well, all the daily crob jobs like updatedb etc. plus much more would have to go :-)
Not very relevant to larger idea of a derived distro which might very well be a good thing to try but we dont run updatedb cron by default for a while now.
Well, I'm aware of that, but the script is still installed with tons of other stuff that we don't need on a modern desktop [1]. There's so many things we have right now that we don't need in a desktop distro.
For example, the very idea of using anaconda to install the OS is just wrong in 2006. The way you want to do this (and Ubuntu is doing this already) is clearly to have a bootable CD with a "Install OS to hard disk" icon that does what you want. Nothing more, nothing less.
They do have a traditional style installer too. I was discussing the Live CD with installer option in fedora-livecd list and Jeremy Katz didnt appear too keen on it. However I completely agree with you on having this atleast as a option. If we have enough people willing to do a Fedora Desktop derivative, then lets just do that. We are going down that path of enabling such things to happen anyway.
Rahul