From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: Package installation error dialogue missing skip and abort options. During a new/fresh install of Fedora Core 2, package installation failed for a non-critical package (probably corrupt CD). Error dialogue gives only a "Hit o.k. to retry" type message, only one button. Much better would be an "OK", "Skip Package" "Abort Installation" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Fedora Core 2 with a corrupt package, in graphical mode 2. wait for package installation error dialogue 3. Look in vain for "skip this package" button Actual Results: No such button. Stuck in loop - I could probably burn another CD and try again, but I don't want the package that is corrupt. Additional info:
Skipping just leaves you with a broken system, your only option at that point is to retry (potentially ejecting the CD and putting in a new one also works at that point).
This doesn't seem like the "linux" way. I didn't specify the package, but it was one I had no use for. I was setting up a GUI-free machine, and it was a package related to developing apps with GUI widgets. Probably the Right Thing is a dependency warning and a confirm skip dialogue, and an entry in the install log should I skip in error and want to go back and add the package later. Short of that, the error dialogue should have an "abort" button as well as your suggestion of ejecting the CD and cleaning it or trying another. That is sort of minimally polite. You seem to feel that no extranious packages find their way into the install. It looks to me like the package bundles are too broad, in some circumstances. My installation would be not so much broken as improved if I skipped the offending package.