On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Karen Tung wrote: > Actually, no. If we just want to be able to run the > media base text installer, the list of required packages > should be closer to AI. As I discussed in the other > email, LiveCD has a lot of stuff that we include for > people to try, which is not needed for running the > installer.
As you point out in another thread, a user may select the media based text installer purely because of convenience in which case LiveCD set packages makes sense to install. Basically, I think we need a crisper set of requirements and use cases that go with it before we drill down further. >> When the support for IPS installs arrives in the text >> installer, the list of packages would be closer to AI. >> >> So, given that I think we can't really have a singular >> image that is able to do - network booted AI, media booted AI, >> media based text install and IPS based text install. > Well, we certainly can have 1 single image for everything. > There's no technical difficulty there. > The more important question is whether we want to or does it > make sense too. > > I think we should talk about our target user, and how they > will be using these images to do their work/solve their problem, > and then, decide on how many image and what kind of installer(s) > should be included in each image. We need to talk about our target user and the use cases. As Sarah mentions separately, it would be good to discuss these at the meeting today. Alok
