On 11/09/2012 05:48 AM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
I still think there would be room for shrinking both code base and the system dependencies if the installer focused on its core responsibility - getting the bits on disk. That is an important and very high-risk operation - why do we need to complicate the program doing it by also making it responsible for creating users, configuring firewalls, timezones, etc etc ? Those are all things that can (and imo should) be done in the much safer and easier-to-debug post-install environment.
Because when you are only installing the minimal package set (which means no x) then the post-install configuration tools don't really exist to do those necessary steps, nor do people want to have an automated install, which then halts at first boot to prompt a user to configure a bunch of stuff necessary to make the machine work right.
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