On 2012-11-09, 17:15 GMT, Peter Jones wrote: > The installer's memory footprint is largely bound by the size of the > package set. So, for example, a yum "upgrade" will take more ram - > because there are effectively twice as many packages involved.
I see that. Couldn’t be there a way how to somehow overcome this problem? Just a bit of brainstorming, don’t shoot me too much for being silly. a) it could be that anaconda could just provide some kind of profiles instead of exact selection of individual packages and the lists of required packages for such profiles could be then precompiled in advance and provided on the installation medium (and for kickstart you could precompile it on a separate machine)? b) installation could be done just from a limited set of packages (something similar to what we used to have in Fedora Core, for example) and the final installation of packages would be done post-installation from the full set? We do that effectively with LiveCD installations anyway, don’t we? Well, at least mostly ... certainly people can download additional packages from Internet. Do users do that or do they typically install just what’s on CD/USB? Do people typically do detailed selection of packages (including obscure ones) in anaconda, or do they do (what I do, so I am biased) detailed final selection of packages on the already installed system? > Actually, yeah, when you question our competence and the utility of > what we're doing, that is a bit offensive. Did I say a word about your competence? I really didn’t mean to do that. For one, I am quite sure that you are way better programmers than I am, so I have not much to say about anybody’s competence. I just wondered (and I still wonder a little, see above) about the necessity of using 2-4 times more RAM for what me (yes, that could be part of the problem, I don’t need/use most of the advanced/enterprise functionality in anaconda) seems like doing exactly the same as before. From the user’s point of view, it is just cost/benefit ratio ... what I've got for the cost of increased hardware requirements. But yes, it could be because I just don’t need advanced functionality. So I was just trying to get to the bottom of it. Best, Matěj -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
