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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