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Да, товарищи... Обломъ:

Outside of kickstart, individual package selection will not be coming back.

First, package selection was always a lie. You could request packages be included or excluded from installation, but in the end anaconda would end up doing what it needed to do anyway. If you deselected a package that was required, you'd get it anyway.

Second, our package selection UI has been completely different from that on the rest of the system since we started using PackageKit. This means the user had to learn two completely separate interfaces one of which was only useful for a very short time.

Third, anaconda is a poor place to do package-level selection. There's not enough context for the user to decide what each package means and whether they want it or not, and no way to go about getting that information aside from having another computer present. We've also learned over time that people really just want to get the install done with and move on to using the computer.

Fourth, package-level is really not how Fedora is organized anymore nor how we want to present it. Sure there's a bazillion packages in the system, but for the most part this is an implementation detail. We want to present Fedora as a complete, put-together base system to which you can add other groups to accomplish a task. That's what the current UI presents.

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Да, товарищи... Обломъ:

Outside of kickstart, individual package selection will not be coming back.

First, package selection was always a lie. You could request packages be included or excluded from installation, but in the end anaconda would end up doing what it needed to do anyway. If you deselected a package that was required, you'd get it anyway.

Second, our package selection UI has been completely different from that on the rest of the system since we started using PackageKit. This means the user had to learn two completely separate interfaces one of which was only useful for a very short time.

Third, anaconda is a poor place to do package-level selection. There's not enough context for the user to decide what each package means and whether they want it or not, and no way to go about getting that information aside from having another computer present. We've also learned over time that people really just want to get the install done with and move on to using the computer.

Fourth, package-level is really not how Fedora is organized anymore nor how we want to present it. Sure there's a bazillion packages in the system, but for the most part this is an implementation detail. We want to present Fedora as a complete, put-together base system to which you can add other groups to accomplish a task. That's what the current UI presents.