Improvements?

[Jonathan Berry]

On 3/21/06, Xavier Higgins <pyrophobicman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 05:52, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 07:49:55PM -0500, Xavier Higgins wrote:
> > >>> I'm not flaming fedora. I just want to know if there is a way to
> > >>> easily get all packages (like in Fc4). I've been with Fedora since it
> > >>> was still RedHat. I'm not going to give it up that easily :).
> > >>
> > >> Yes , and with much argument it was finally explained. You right click
> > >> on the group of rpms you want to install and you can install them all.
> > >>
>
> I know that, but having done that  (in the test release at least),
> there were many rpms not installed. Was this resolved? If not, is
> there a way to get *ALL* of the packages on the five disks?

There has never been a way to get *all* of the packages on the install
disks, as I understand it.  There are some packages that conflict and
thus cannot be installed together.  There is not an "Everything"
option in FC5 like in FC4.  This has been the topic of much debate on
the fedora-test list and the final answer seems to be that an
"Everything" install is just too complicated to support.

By the way, judging Fedora based on a test release is not at all fair.
 A test release is for just that: *testing*.  Do not install a test
release if you want a stable system; install a test release only if
you plan on helping test.

Jonathan