From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: In version 7.2 selecting flat view when installing packages provided the list of ALL packages. 7.3 limits this just to those packages that it thinks are selectable (no selection for i.e. sendmail) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run installer 2. Select Custom Setup 3. Choose Select Individual Packages 4. Select Flat View Actual Results: The list of the packages already accessible through Tree View Expected Results: ALL packages Additional info: Is there a workaround? Except uninstalling unneeded packages after installation?
Packages required by the base install are not shown. We should probably show them and not let them be unselected, but show them as selected.
I do understand that you have to support users that might want to install Red Hat, but still to unselect kernel because it is large. However I think that the right approach would be to display all these packages, still allow users to disable them, but show a warning pop-up. In my view there are quite a few packages in this "standard" portion that I would leave out of, say, firewall, and not allowing me to disselect them reminds me too much of Windows where you end up installing Minesweeper and Solitaire whether you like it or not.
We now allow selection of everything that isn't going to cause a critical problem if you don't install it. Which cuts things down quite abit more.