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Summary
A single Installer combining Live & Classic.
Owner
- Name: Lewis Smith
- Email: lewyssmith@onetel.com
Resources
Installer developers to do the work. ISO builders & QA to use the result.
Current status
- Targeted release: Mageia release 5
- Last updated: 2025/05/09
- Percentage of completion: <XX>%
Detailed Description
Combine the two main Installers Live & Classic. Essentially Live, but with all the installation choices currently offered by Classic.
Why it would be good for Mageia to include it
The current setup of two different Installers causes a *lot* of work & problems during pre-release production & testing. Each one has its own development & maintenance. Each one gives rise to its own flavour of problems, specific to its derived ISOs. They have different capabilities. It is simply a situation which currently duplicates all these aspects; this duplication would be eliminated.
Automatically the number of ISOs needing to be produced and tested would be reduced: less work, better testing.
Putting the effort in now would save a lot of work later for ISO builders and QA testers. And simplify life for the eventual public who are faced with bizarre choices like Live for specific heavyweight desktops, non-live for more interesting choices which cannot be tried in advance. Everyone would gain.
Test case
Software / Packages Dependencies
Mageia Installer(s).
What could disrupt development of this new feature
Disagreements about detailed aspects of it. Technical problems. Manpower.
Planning
It would have to be fully implemented *before* entering the pre-release cycle.
Contingency
Stay with the current Installers and their resulting ISOs.
