Package Selection During Installation.

[Jeff Vian]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Fr, den 20.02.2004 schrieb Rodolfo J. Paiz um 16:47:
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>>At 09:14 2/20/2004, you wrote:
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>>>It is not available on Fedora Core 1. It was long discussed before Core
>>>1 came out as a stable release.
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>>I haven't installed an FC1 system in the last few days, but I disagree. If 
>>my memory serves, you select individual packages on the SAME screen where 
>>you select package groups rather than as a separate screen... but I do 
>>recall being able to do so.
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>>Rodolfo J. Paiz
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>Compared to what you might know for package selection during install on
>Redhat 9 and older releases, the package selection on Fedora Core 1 is
>not the same. You can not individually select packages like on Redhat
>releases, but you can in a certain, less gradual degree.
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Individual packages can easily be selected.

When you select a package group it by default selects certain packages 
within the group.  In those there are usually some that are considered 
'core' for the group and must be installed for that group.  There is 
also a "details" link on the right side.  If you click that it opens the 
list of individual packages in the group and anything with a check box 
may be selected or de-selected.

In RH9 and earlier you had a big long list of packages and it was not 
obvious what needed to be installed to resolve dependencies.  I often 
had to select my choices then tell it to automatically install the ones 
needed to satisfy the dependencies.  This new selection method 
eliminated that unnecessary (and confusing to some) step.