the proper way to 'yum update' a new 'everything' install of FC4?

[Bill Perkins]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 3:29 pm, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:57, Robert Locke wrote:
>>
>>>My argument is that the "Everything" install needs to die!!  <evil grin>
>>
>>How do you propose that people should learn which thousand programs
>>they might want to use if there isn't a convenient way to get them
>>all at once?   And how will fedora get it's bugs fixed if nobody
>>installs the stuff and reports them?
> 
> 
> I would add an amen - I started using Linux 16 months ago. I tried several of 
> the install options before settling on 'everything'. I kept running into 
> situations where I just didn't know enough to deal with various situations. 
> People would discuss programs and other things that didn't seem to exist, for 
> example. In another few months, I will probably go to more selective installs 
> and not do the 'everything' option any longer. But for this user, having 
> everything on my machine was a lot more important than security. I really 
> could have cared less these past 16 months whether my system got attacked or 
> not - it was a learning machine, not a production box. I hope things are left 
> just the way they are. Add a security warning to the 'everything' option, but 
> don't remove it. 
> 

I switched to Fedora almost 2 months ago, did an "everything" install, 
and read yum's manpage to figure out how to do things (I'm coming from 
10 years of Slackware, here). First thing after that was get a listing 
of all the packages I had installed, then figure out which ones I wasn't 
familiar with, got the info for them, and decided whether to keep them 
or not. The Canna packages went (I don't do Japanese), the extra 
language packages went next (I only do English on this system), then 
those funky kernel packages. They don't apply to my rather modest system 
(1 GHz PIII, 256Mb RAM, 200Gb HD, 24xCDR), and I haven't had any 
problems. I have also stuck with the "regular" repos, I don't use livna 
or the other one; I've dodged a few bullets this way. The collection of 
packages that is in the "regular" distribution of FC4 seems more than 
adequate; if I need packages that aren't in this distro, there is always 
RPM and it's headaches; if you want to learn about your system, learn 
RPM and use that for anything out of the mainstream. You will definitely 
have a learning experience.. ;)


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