Fedora 7 (Everything installs)
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sat Jan 6 08:36:16 UTC 2007
Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 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.
There are easy ways to do this with yum or kickstart even now.
Rahul
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