Fedora 7 (Everything installs)
Eric S. Raymond
esr at thyrsus.com
Fri Jan 5 22:43:31 UTC 2007
Jeffrey C. Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us>:
> While an "everything" install may have made some sense in the pre-Extras
> days, it's just silly now. There are so many packages in Core+Extras,
> many of which duplicate functionality.
Nebvertheless, there are real uses for "install everything". Notably,
one can be working tools that are designed to audit the entire distribution.
When I test doclifter, I want the largest possible corpus of man pages to
work on.
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