Fedora 7 (Everything installs)
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sat Jan 6 02:40:40 UTC 2007
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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