Checkbox for "Install Everything"
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sun May 20 18:23:38 UTC 2007
jack wallen wrote:
>>>> Can we please, Please, **___PLEASE___** have that option back for
>>>> F7? It makes installation so much easier and faster...
>>>
>>> Clearly you missed the discussion wherein it was resolved by the
>>> OCD police that an install everything button is the worse possible
>>> heresy imaginable.
>>
>> I guess they have concluded that fedora is no longer usable as a
>> general purpose multi-user machine and you can only run it as a
>> specialized server or a pc-like desktop.
>>
> which is a decision that might very well have pushed me over the edge
> into switching to a new distribution.
The checkbox I want is "assume dozens of people will be using this box
for development and office work in a 24x7 shop - if they want to run
something that isn't installed, they'll call your cell phone at any
hour". That gives the right perspective against wasting a few dollars
worth of disk space.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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