Fedora 7 (Everything installs)

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 03:26:34AM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
 > On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:22:04PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > core+extras today is around 5000 packages iirc.  This is only going
 > > to get bigger.  How can possibly make sense to install every package
 > > known to man?
 > 
 > What makes you think the installation is pointed at a full core+extras
 > mirror instead of a selected subset?  Not everybody is stupid you
 > know.

I wish I shared your faith in humanity.
Some people _will_ see an everything button and try it on a core+extras dist.
Probably more than the alternative scenario you propose.

A better solution to subsets than using 'everything' would be to
use the same mechanism we'll be using for the server spin
or the kde spin or whatever.

		Dave

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