Fedora Extras

Thomas Taylor linxt at comcast.net
Sun Feb 6 21:51:42 UTC 2005


On Sunday 06 February 2005 13:38, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 13:29, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > Newbie question here :-( what would be the best way to install the
> > > Fedora extras? One by one or is there an option to have it installed as
> > > a whole by using say yum?
> >
> > It's best to just install the things you need. This goes for the main
> > Fedora Core distribution as well. :)
>
> How do you know if you need something before you have seen it?
>
> --
>   Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com

Very good point, Les.  

Along those lines, perhaps something should be put into the wish list (KDE & 
GNOME) to put better descriptions in the package listings during the install 
process.

Tom

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Tom Taylor 
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