Oh noes, you don't understand. See, I have a shaggy dog tale that
demonstrates why people want the nice ncurses installer. And if you
give them a ncurses installer, now, they'll want an X based installer.
And if you...
Anyway, I used to work for a company uses novell, and we were a
contractor to a much bigger company for somethings. We wrote a "fax
replacement", so instead of faxing 20,000 pages a night, we scanned
and dropped it in a directory, and the mothership picked it up, and
used it. But they wanted to print as well (to their new printers),
and it would not print, obviously my application problem. I told my
boss they just needed their novell guy to set up the rights on the new
printers, but, my boss told me to go on down, for "customer service".
*sigh* So, I told them I need one of the users to be there, and
someone with admin rights.
I went. Brought up printcon, and other various things, peeked and
poked[1] around. Satisfied to myself that it was a rights issue,
pointed out to the "novell administrator" hanging around. Brought up
a dos box, and was doing things like pings and telnets, and the
"novell administrator" went "yucks, you're one of those DOS people". And this was mid/late 90s, win95/nt4 days.
Ignored him.
As I left, I overheard him complaining to a friend that he's been
there x months, and they have not given him any rights, and he doesn't
understand why, he is supergood+2, and knows everything, and so on and
so forth. Then he admitted he didn't know dos very well, and in fact,
took the dos class 3 times, and failed it 3 times.
And this, people, is why you need to have ncurses based installer.
Or not.
[1] Man, I used to be able to do some of that, and even knew what the
values were.
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"This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity."
-- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation.
