Fedora 7 (Everything installs)

[Eric S. Raymond]

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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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>