Some things I would like to see in the installer...
1) When you select "development" as an option, all devel packages get installed by default. It is a royal pain in the ass to have to go back and find devel packages later on when you are trying to get a piece of code to build. 2) Something to configure multiple monitors/cards in X. (Also a way to go back and reconfigure a monitor when you buy a new one because the old one let out the magic smoke.) 3) If SMP is detected, don't assume that it is a 686. (The firewall-on-a-disc does this. My dual Pentium Pro 200 was not amused.) 4) On upgrade, remove previous catalog entries in the Mandrake updater. (So it does not show versions from 2+ versions, just the current one.) If you don't remove them, label them better in the catalog listing so they can be removed later. 5) On upgrade, find a way to make the upgrade complete in less than 12 hours! (This one has gotten on my nerves. The last upgrade from 8.0 to 8.1 went to poorly, I did a scratch-and-burn on the system to fix it.)
