On Thursday 01 November 2007, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl): > Frans' proposal adds an extra question when doing CD installs, to > prompt users whether they want to use another CD or not. This, even if > they did choose a network mirror before. Not quite. My proposal asks whether the user wants to use additional CDs _before_ the mirror question is asked. In the patches I have prepared, the flow would be: 1) 40cdrom generator install CD/DVD is scanned, unless its a businesscard 2) 41cdset generator if install CD/DVD is the first of a set, then ask if user wants to scan additional CD/DVDs (default is no) after a 2nd CD/DVD has been scanned, ask if user wants to scan another CD/DVD (slightly different worded question); repeated until user answers "no" 3) 50mirror generator ask if user wants to use a mirror; default and priority of the question depends on a number of factors, including installation method 4) 9x... generators ask if user wants to use security/volatile Ad 3: choosing to use a mirror or not I have not (yet) added the number of CD/DVDs scanned as a factor, but that could be done; I'm not sure yet if that really makes sense. Ad 4: using security/volatile Currently we only ask this at medium/low priority which makes it somewhat hard _not_ to use these mirrors. We could decide to raise the priority of this question to high if multiple CD/DVDs have been scanned. > Joeyh's argument is being reluctant to extra questions and decide that > users who did choose a network mirror will, by definition, not want to > use extra CDs. He therefore proposes to partly "hide" the decision of > scanning extra CD's in the question about network mirror. If users did > choose a network mirror, then don't prompt them about extra CDs. Correct. So the flow would become: 1) 50cdrom generator install CD/DVD is scanned, unless its a businesscard 2) 50mirror generator ask if user wants to use a mirror; default and priority of the question depends on a number of factors, including installation method 3) 51cdset generator Only if the user has selected _not_ to use a mirror and if install CD/DVD is the first of a set, then ask if user wants to scan additional CD/DVDs after a 2nd CD/DVD has been scanned, ask if user wants to scan another CD/DVD (slightly different worded question); repeated until user answers "no" 4) 9x... generators ask if user wants to use security/volatile > [...], I tend to favourize (en?) Frans approach, here. favour :-)
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