Thank you, unknown genius!

[Les Mikesell]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 14:56 -0600, Anton Solovyev wrote:
>> For removing the "Install Everything" option from Fedora Core 8
>> installation.
> 
> For what it's worth, it never installed "everything," not even
> everything that came on your install disc, never mind all the things
> that you can install over the net that were never on the install disc
> for size, or later addition, reasons.  Some things were always omitted,
> and had to be.  Having an everything option was misleading, and
> generally a bad idea for a lot of people.

I always took "everything" to mean everything that a person very 
familiar with the distribution would suggest for someone who wasn't, and 
its removal makes the choices particularly difficult for someone who 
wouldn't know ahead of time what they'll need.

> You'll strike the same problem elsewhere.  There will be things that
> conflict, so you can't really install everything.

"Everything" doesn't mean everything in the world.  It should mean 
everything you are likely to need if you don't know better yourself.

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