From release notes for FC5T3 (web)
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Mar 8 00:25:34 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 12:10 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 10:51, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
> > Right on spot. Everything installation was a bandaid over inflexible
> > package management post installation to the point that the users felt
> > that just selecting everything would save them a lot of potential pain
> > later.
>
> The part about saving time is still probably true. Who wants to
> be in the middle of something and run into missing programs
> needed to complete it? And if you don't have at least one
> machine with 'everything' installed, how are you supposed to
> find out what is available and if you like it?
>
Uh?? Lets see?? Maybe I could look at what is on the install media,
what is in Extras, and even on other repos. Then ask questions if I
still need answers before I flood my drive with hundreds of apps that I
(an experienced user) will never use by doing an everything install.
Finding packages to do things is easier than ever and 5 minutes of
research to find and install a single package that I want to try saves
me a lot of headaches in other areas.
If I want a package to do X, then I search for one that does what I
need. I don't want 1000 extra packages installed just because I *may*
want one of them 5 months from today.
BTW, it is just as easy to do an "rpm
-Uvh /media/cdrecorder/fedora/RPMS/*.rpm" and get the same effect as
doing an everything install. Or even do a "yum install \* " which will
get it as well.
The ease of doing that kind of bloated install is not gone, just moved
to another venue that is more friendly to a new user.
Please get off the "I want" bandwagon and think about the community as a
whole and alternative paths when you look at these changes.
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