Make that "Everything" I've asked for...
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Mar 7 13:51:43 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 02:55, Jeff Vian wrote:
> >
> > OK, so it is possible to get what most people would want by making
> > thousands of individual selections involving programs they
> > don't know anything about yet... How many people who picked
> > English at that first dialog really need cannaserver running
> > all the time?
> >
>
> The same logic applies to selecting *everything*. How many people
> really want a LOT of stuff they don't know and that takes up a lot of
> drive space?
Why would the people assembling the distribution include programs
that no one would want, and how can a user decide what he wants
before seeing them? Language support is something they already
know what they want so it's not the same logic at all.
> And, BTW, it is not thousands by any means.
'Everything' says it installs things not available in the
other bundles. How do you get them if not wading through
the RPMS?
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Les Mikesell
les at futuresource.com
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