Can yum install everything?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sun Jan 25 17:00:04 UTC 2004


On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 02:43:21PM +0000, Tom Taylor wrote:
> >How does one install "all" of the packages?
> I'm not sure why you'd want to do this? There's a lot of packages that 
> you'd never use, and it would take a lot time/a lot of space to install.

And part of the reason to *use* something like yum is so you don't have to.
It's easy to add things you need on demand, and you don't have to worry
about tracing dependency chains.


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