Select packages in install

[Micha Silver]

Brian Jones wrote:
> Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> 
>> At 01:54 12/16/2003, you wrote:
>>
>>> Mike Peterson wrote:
>>>
>>>> The individual package option was removed from Fedora.
>>>> The last word was that there were no plans to bring it back.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any particular reason?
>>> Install minimal, then add whatever you want?
>>> Well, at least we have a choice or will this be removed too?  >:o
>>
>>
>>
>> Not to worry, Bob. Mike's comment is incorrect... the choice is still 
>> there.
>>
>>
> 
> The choice isn't there.
> Yes, you can click in the individual package groups to enable more 
> packages, but this is worlds different from being able to select from 
> all packages available on the install media. In fact, if you do an 
> 'everything' install in fedora, you're presented with a warning that 
> says something like 'this is more packages than just what's available by 
> selecting all packages in all groups'.

For example, I could not find anywhere in the "Select individual 
packages" the KDE edutainment package. That set of nice educational 
software IS available as rpms - on disk 3 -, but you'd never know about 
it if you weren't aware in advance, or you did an "everything" install.

--Micha
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