Bug#219888: anna: Give the user full control of modules to be installed

[Gaudenz Steinlin <gaudenz@soziologie.ch>]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 00:42, Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> Package: anna
> Version: 0.043
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The anna TODO list contains :
> | * Include all packages that will be autoinstalled in the question about
> |   what to install, in addition to those that will not be installed.
> |   In corner cases the user mqay need to omit a particular package
> |   from being installed even though it would be normally (think kernel
> |   module udeb with a module that hangs with the given HW or something).
> 
> The attached patch implements it this way :
>   - A new template (anna/choose-mode) asks the user (priority low) the
>     way udebs should be selected : automatically, propose additional
>     modules (default, current behaviour), full control.
>   - If full control is chosen, automatically selected components are
>     added to the list, preselected. The user can deselect them and they
>     won't get installed.
> 
IMHO it would be better to simply have the current behaviour on priority
medium and your new "full control" behaviour on priority low. I don't
see the point of choosing the mode in priority low because if the user
chooses to run at this priority he already has told d-i that he wants
full control. 

gaudenz