Bug#250285: Usability: 'Start PCMCIA Card services' question

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

On Friday 21 May 2004 22:33, Joey Hess wrote:
> Frans Pop wrote:
> > The answer to this question should default to 'no' instead of 'yes'.
>
> Why?

My 2 cents (well, 4 in this case):
1. I would guess most installations are on desktops or servers that don't 
support PCMCIA.
2. Starting PCMCIA on systems that don't support it (and even on systems that 
do) may cause freezes and other unwanted effects.
3. Even a lot of laptops supporting PCMCIA don't really need it activated 
during first stage installation (e.g. if they have an onboard/internal 
network card).
4. In general I think things should be started by consciously choosing 'yes' 
instead of by people hitting the default because they don't properly read or 
don't understand the question.