On 03/08/12 06:48, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:50:15 +0100 > Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > >> Furthermore, the more chatty installer is, the less amount of >> newcomers would be reading the messages. > > I had a thought last night, how worrying that my mind jumped to OpenBSD > in front of the TV. It occurred to me that it wasn't too long ago that > the installer switched from asking to partition first or had less > questions at the beginning and flicking through those quickly may > explain why the op hit enter so readily and why this hasn't come > up before when the first question was a more important one. Then again > I have doubts it will ever come up again too. > > What was the reason for the re-order?
It was reworked so that in the most common, simplest installs, you could just hit ENTER for almost everything quickly and up-front, then walk away and let the install take place (keep in mind, while many users love their five-minute-install amd64 systems, a lot of developers use machines where a full install may take a long time. We like to be able to walk away and come back to a finished install, not find out its been waiting for us to answer another question). The developers were very proud of and happy with this. This "Hit Enter a bunch of times to do the install" is a highly desired property by those who do a lot of installs. There have been many internal discussions about adding questions about real options, which have been vetoed because ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ARE NOT DESIRED. Again, real operational changes are vetoed. "Are you sure?" questions just don't have a chance. Sorry (but not very. I love it). (the new installer was also smaller, which is also a desirable trait, as that means more devices can be added to (or more accurately, fewer removed from) the install kernels) Nick.
