Bug 178736 - Installer Stage: New Feature Request
Summary: Installer Stage: New Feature Request
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-01-23 21:13 UTC by Bill Jones
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-01-28 05:37:20 UTC
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Description Bill Jones 2006-01-23 21:13:50 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Description of problem:
I would like the inclusion of the gpm binary (console mouse) -- so that the text cut-n-paste function more appropriately during the installation phase.

Thx/Sx =)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
GPM (Console Mouse)

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  It's a wish =)
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Actual Results:  No way to copy and paste console messages...

Expected Results:  I would like a console mouse to play with during installation =)

Additional info:

(I know, it's a crazy request ... I'm crazy. =)

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-01-28 05:37:20 UTC
gpm just adds another dependency and another thing to break.  Plus, it would
increase the memory footprint if we add more to the second stage images.


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