[Mageia-dev] Are you sure? (no confirmation before proceeding to selected packages installation)

[Felix Miata]

Mageia's installer has the same problem that bothers me in Mandriva. The type 
install screen with KDE vs Gnome vs custom has no intermediate step prior to 
the start of selected packages installation. Does this bother no one else?

It seems to be a confirmation of some kind should follow exit from this 
screen, maybe a popup saying "Are you sure you want to do this?" or "Packages 
installation will begin when you click 'OK'", implying a contemplation period 
where it may be realized something may have been forgotten that would be more 
easily corrected sooner rather than later. Time and again I've forgotten that 
this doesn't happen, clicked OK, and only then remembered why I didn't want 
what I selected. But, the only way back is to abort the install entirely.

The root of this situation for me is mostly two pronged:

1-More often than not I'm doing a "test" install of an alpha, beta or RC. 
That means I intend to test mainly things I could or would recognize as 
working or not, including the installer itself. I want to get on with the 
installation process without waiting for kitchen sinks, bathtubs and guest 
houses and their wasted bandwidth to complete. The screen offering only the 
KDE/Gnome/Custom options is too simplistic, hiding the minimal option as an 
afterstep to "Custom", which amounts to the only way to do _any_ 
customization when either a KDE or Gnome selection is also wanted, but 
minimally, a sort of no-suggests. The Mandrake/Mandriva main selection screen 
used to have a checkbox worded something like "individual package selection". 
I miss it.

2-There are no formatting options offered for /. Since I virtually always 
install to a multiboot system, I require maximum cross-installation 
compatibility. I can't have inode sizes, UUIDs and volume labels changed 
willy nilly without having to go back and reconfigure every other 
installation to conform to needless changes made by a new installation. 
Format step really ought to offer selectable format options so that an 
existing UUID, LABEL and/or Inode size could be preserved and yet the / 
target really be empty.

Is there any point in filing wishlist bug for either of these shortcomings? 
Would the latter be treated like Fedora did? 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808970
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