[Novalug] New Fedora Partitioner SUCKS

Peter Larsen peter@peterlarsen.org
Sun Oct 6 21:14:45 EDT 2013


Out of curiosity - what version of the installer were you trying to use?

On 10/06/2013 09:10 PM, James Ewing Cottrell III wrote:
> I sent this to you because I know of your connection to Fedora.
>
> There is nothing wrong or difficult with the RHEL/CentOS Installer; 
> indeed I consider the RHEL/CentOS 5 Installer the Height of Perfection.
>
> Granted, there probably configurations (anything but the Basic Devices) 
> that the new Installer can handle better (or at all).
>
> I will read that reference, but Fedora seems to want to Redefine the 
> World and make things I Already Do not only More Difficult, but 
> Impossible. That's hardly making things easier.
>
> It's Too Buggy to be released.
>
> JIM
>
> On 10/4/2013 5:45 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 05:36:16PM -0400, James Ewing Cottrell III wrote:
>>> Dear Fedora,
>>>
>>> I would like to "Thank" you for "Improving" the Partitioner.
>> [...snip...]
>>
>> I'm not sure why this was addressed to me personally, but here's some
>> useful background information on the installer and the how and why of
>> the redesign:
>>
>> http://www.ryanlerch.org/blog/the-anaconda-interface-redesign/
>>
>> I find this link in the blog above especially useful:
>>
>> http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2011/12/14/whats-your-partitioning-persona-and-the-partitioning-ui-thus-far/
>>
>> This was all done transparently over the course of a couple years and
>> I'm pretty proud of the way the Fedora team handled it -- both the
>> design and the implementation.  That the installer team and the
>> designers invited so much input from community members over the past
>> two-plus years helped make this redesign more successful.  I
>> appreciate that not every case can be handled equally deftly.
>> Thankfully, the result of making choices in the design and
>> implementation is that the majority of users will have an easier time
>> installing.
>>
>>
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  Peter Larsen




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