From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.08 [en] (X11; I; AIX 4.3) Description of problem: There is no switch for select single packages during the installation dialog. Only groups and the non default group rpms can select for the (CD) installation. After the installation the %packages in anaconda-ks.cfg is the base for the kickstart file for me. redhat-config-kickstart knows only the packages groups! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the system interactiv 2. 3. Additional info:
This is intentional, going through a list of 1500 packages is not really very sane and we'd rather get to where the packages that people care about are selectable via the more usable interface.
*** Bug 101619 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Realize that this "intentional" design choice is a choice that many others do not agree with. I'd be very careful dismissing feedback from your customers. FYI, this is a feature we've had in the past.... IMHO. Why not give fine grain control to those who need it and user friendly seutp as the default? The user friendly groups is nice (for some people), but gives up lots of control.