Comment 6 for bug 203977

This bug is drifting to the point where it is not possible for it ever to be fixed because it is trying to achieve very wide goals (for instance, "provide a more intuitive install application" is obviously something that everyone wants, but bug reports should be about *specific* *defined* ways to achieve this). Please keep comments short and to the point. Bugs are requests for software changes, and so they need to be about single issues. Different issues should be filed as different bug reports, or as mailing list discussions if they aren't clear enough to request individual software changes yet.

Wildly different sets of applications are handled by way of different derivatives of Ubuntu. Given that the live CD installer fundamentally operates by copying the live CD image to the hard disk and then tweaking it a bit, having it install totally different sets of applications is never going to be something it handles particularly gracefully. Please use the alternate CD instead for that kind of thing, or even just install an ordinary system and use Add/Remove... to add more applications. You don't have to do everything in the initial operating system installer, and indeed you probably shouldn't because that makes the installer less comprehensible to people who don't need all the bells and whistles.

I think the only part we're willing to address in ubiquity is some kind of system for dealing with users' configuration settings in the live CD environment. I strongly request that this bug be limited to this.