Custom installation of Fedora

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 00:41:27 +0930,
  Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
> Sure, some of the problems may be down to some packages which are merely
> problematic in combination.  But there's always been some packages which
> were mutually exclusive.  And there always will be, unless you eradicate
> such packages from the install media, completely.  And, then, you'll
> piss off a whole lot of different people.

It should be possible to install all of the packages in Fedora simultaneously.
That isn't to say that you can be running them all at once, as daemons
providing the same service may have problems running at the same time.
But the packages should at least be installable.

If two packages conflict for installation, that is a problem which should
be fixed. The alternatives system was set up to allow this for such things
as MTAs and JREs.

The live spins already do everything installs, as they copy over the file
system rather than doing package based installation. Maybe that is a solution
the original poster could use.