Thank you, unknown genius!
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Fri Apr 11 15:32:58 UTC 2008
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 18:28:55 -0400,
Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net> wrote:
>
> One highly underdocumented feature of the installer is that within
> each major chunk of packages (the column on the left side of the screen),
> you can select all the sub-chunks over on the right side, then right
> click the mouse and pick "select all optional package"
>
> So you can get "everything" with only a moderate number of mouse clicks
> (I haven't discovered any way to do it with the keyboard, which is a
> pain in the patoot in a Xen virtual machine install with the flakey
> mouse tracking).
This gets to be a pain if you want all of the languages installed on a box.
> If "select all optional packages" is a valid thing to do, I have no
> idea why there isn't a button labeled "OK, pretend I went through everything
> manually and clicked on select all optional packages" :-).
Even making the right click trick work one level higher up would be nice.
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