Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
No, development gives a few base development packages such as autoconf, automake, gcc, binutils, plus additional development packages for each group you selected. > 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.) Via Xinerama or not you may configure two monitors when you have two cards or you have one card with dual head. This was introduced in 8.0 or 8.1, not sure. > 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.) Uh? SMP means using kernel-smp, which is a i586 kernel AFAIK. > 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.) We've put some sleep everywhere, on purpose :-)). -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
