Feature changed by: Jiří Suchomel (jsuchome) Feature #315061, revision 7 Title: improve YaST installer to allow patterns and packages from network openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Tomas Cech (sleep_walker) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As you probably already noticed, I'm fighting to get E17 as desktop choice in YaST2 installer. To get E17 choice in installer I need to have pattern and packages present on medium which is already more than full. I proposed replacing LXDE with E17, but there are still users who wants to keep it on medium and I agree, that this shouldn't be the way to fix it. Proper fix I believe is patch YaST2 installer to offer packages and pattern from default repository in http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/ if the network is up. Having checkbox 'Enable network repositories' during installation workflow would make this behavior optional and selected by default if the server is reachable. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: I also received feedback from MATE maintainer, who would welcome such option as well and I believe there are others too. This is artificial limitation which should have been removed long time ago. Discussion: #1: Per Jessen (pjessen) (2013-05-20 10:35:02) I like the idea of a checkbox with 'Enable network repositories', but I don't think it should be enabled by default, regardless of whether the network is available or not. There are still many users limited by bandwidth, we should not impose on them. #2: Christoph Obexer (cobexer) (2013-05-20 10:54:46) (reply to #1) YaST could clearly indicate that such patterns would require to download some packages, it could even show how much that would be for a default installation of that pattern. #3: Jiří Suchomel (jsuchome) (2013-05-21 11:12:37) Network based options could be shown only if network was already configured before. Thus we do not have to introduce another "Enable" checkbox. + #4: Jiří Suchomel (jsuchome) (2013-05-28 10:28:44) + Ehm, we actually already have the required checkbox. It has label "Add + Online Repositories Before Installation" and is shown in one of the + first steps of installation (where you choose installation or update). + But: the checkbox is hidden by default, I do not know why. To enable + it, boot DVD with 'startshell=1', once you see shell, edit /control.xml + and change the value of show_online_repositories to true. + Than write 'exit' end installation will start. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/315061