Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 00:06, Joey Hess wrote:
-- but it detected it was a full CD and just asked the user to make sure they didn't want to use a mirror too. Your proposal only approaches that behavior if a user chooses not to configure thenetwork, which most users will not do. Anyone who configures the network will still have to go through choose-mirror.
But now has the added option to select "don't use", which does approach the old behavior.
But 'no_net' is confusing for this purpose. If somebody wants to use CDROM only such a option should have the name 'cdrom_only'.
Whether or not to default to that option for full CD installs is open for discussion.
The answer is very easy:If somebody downloads/burns/uses the huge full CDROM, we can assume that he wants to install from CDROM. Reasons can be standalone, slow, or expensive internet connections etc.
Effectively this implements the old "do you want a mirror too" question.
IMHO it is very inpolite behaviour to configure a mirror without knowledge/asking the user.
Helmut Wollmersdorfer