'everything' install option in FC5test1

[Bernd Bartmann]

On 11/26/05, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 23:56 +0200, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > It seems that with Everything install option gone in FC5 test1, one
> > cannot install all packages from CD. I'm still downloading it so I
> > cannot test by myself yet, but Jeremy's reply suggests it won't be added
> > back (how are the package groups handled with multiple repositories?).
>
> Everything is a bit of a disaster in a lot of ways.  Some people think
> that it shouldn't include language-specific packages.  Some people think
> it should.  With multiple repositories, should it include all of the
> packages from all of the repositories?  What happens if there are
> conflicts?  And that's in addition to mattdm's helpful comments in the
> bug :)
>
> > In previous Fedora versions, there was also the Details button for a
> > package group, is this gone too? There one could have manually selected
> > additional packages, and this is a solution.
>
> As the screen says, it's just a temporary placeholder for now :)
> Details will be coming back, although not exactly as it was before.
>
> > If both these options are gone, then should the packages which aren't
> > installed by default if all groups are selected be moved to Fedora
> > Extras?
>
> In a lot of cases, packages which aren't listed in the comps file at all
> (or aren't a dependency of something) perhaps _should_ move to Extras.
> In addition, I think there probably are packages which should move
> somewhere into the comps file.  File bugs against comps for things that
> should be listed and aren't.

I've opened bug #174244 on comps and attached a list of all the rpms
that did not get installed. This list contains 999 rpms! Something is
seriously wrong here...

Best regards,
Bernd.