Checkbox for "Install Everything"

[jdow]

From: "Matthew Saltzman" <mjs at clemson.edu>

> On Mon, 21 May 2007, jdow wrote:
>
>> From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
>>
>>> On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 19:33 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>>> How about making the "complete install" button do exactly that?  Then
>>>> the people who want the button would have it, so would have no cause
>>>> to complain.
>>>
>>> As it gets occasionally pointed out.  It never did install everything,
>>> and can't.  It's unavoidable that some things don't go together.
>>
>> Fortune does not seem to be in the class of "everything". Go figure.
>
> fortune-mod is in Extras in FC6.  It wouldn't be reasonable to include 
> Extras in an Everything install.
>
> Fortune isn't even available from Red Hat in RHEL.  IIRC, there was some 
> discussion at one point about appropriateness of content for an enterprise 
> installation as well as some licensing issues.
>
>>
>> (Nor are some engineering tools.)
>
> Some of those may be in Extras as well.  The argument about what an 
> Everything install should include will have to be reframed when F7 
> arrives.
>
> (Would your Everything include fortune-firefly?)
>

Given the user base here if it was not utterly disgusting it'd be
included. But I think I have a special case here.

The missing engineering and SW development gewgaws very positively would
be installed. (As would some engineering software I've never seen in a
distro before.)

{^_-}