Checkbox for "Install Everything"

[Norm]

Alan Cox wrote:
>> Somewhere it seems to have fallen by the wayside.
>>
>> Can we please, Please, **___PLEASE___** have that option back for F7?  It 
>> makes installation so much easier and faster...
>>     
>
> Oh no it wouldn't. Everything would be all of FC7 (the seperate extras is
> gone). It would haul in a zillion weird and wonderful obscure apps, some
> very large, and it would cause problems with conflicts between
> "either/or" package choices.
>
> Selecting all the groups offered is intended to be a sane "all the stuff
> you are likely to want" option, that fits in actual normal disk/time.
>
> Alan
>
>   
Apart from the obvious issues such as security and space a wide open 
install everything could cause other issues.
On a very old box that I use for a test bench I have tried installing  
ldap and each time I do it wipes out user passwords even before I 
configure ldap.  I have not been able to find a second newer box I can 
give it a try on to see if it is an isolated issue on a box that is 
nearly too old to run FC6.  If I did an install everything on this box I 
would never be able to get it running also as the box is light in the 
Ram department havening too many unnecessary services running would 
further complicate my problems with the box.
If not having an install everything option saves one person a reinstall 
the inconvenience of having to think for a moment about the packages you 
need seems a small price to pay.
Also in terms of band width the instal everything approach may be 
questionable.  Generally I use a fresh install when I upgrade, I have 
found a minimal install requires only 2 cds and I can later update 
online only with the packages I want.  I am sure this requires less 
bandwidth in total than install everything and then do the updates to 
everything. 
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