Installing from the 3 DVD fedora 8 "Everything" re-spin

[David Boles]

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Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:

> 	 An ordinary re-spin, as I use the word -- and especially the
> thing -- enables a user to install what's current now, instead of what
> was in November, without having to do vast updating to get the current
> rpms. A custom re-spin appears generally to be so called.
>
> 	The everything DVD walks like a re-spin and quacks like a re-spin
> on my end -- and such 'abuse of language,' as the mathematicians call it,
> has been normal for as much of the history of tongues as is known or can
> be inferred from extant evidence.
>
> 	So if you want to call it an again-spin, go ahead. We'll see
> which way common usage goes.


Since there never was an original 'everything spin' how could there be a
're-spin everything spin?. And yes it does contain everything but does
it contain the updates replacing the original packages? That would have
been an 'everything re-spin'. If there had been an 'everything spin'.

In that mass of 'stuff' that you downloaded there is 'stuff' that you
will never use and never find a use for in your time. That's why Fedora
did *not* do this.


Call it a "an again-spin"? Nah. I'd call it a waste of time. Some of
those packages were already out of date when fedora 8 was released. More
of them are out of date today. And more will be tomorrow. And the next
day. Fedora Linux is fluid. Changes everyday.

Again. An "again-spin"? If it Walks like a duck. Looks like a duck.
Clucks like a chicken. Ain't a duck. Fair enough.  ;-)

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  David

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