"install everything" and @everything dumped

[Jim Cornette]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
>>
>> All my windows launched end up stuck to the top of my screen and there 
>> is no way to switch to previously launched applications. The last 
>> application launched has focus. It appears there is no window manager. 
>> Metacity is the WM, GNOME is the desktop.
> 
> Is there a bug report on this? . This doesnt happen for me. Does it 
> happen for anyone else at all?

I'll change over to GNOME shortly to see if the problem can be diagnosed 
enough to make even considering GNOME again as a desktop even worthy for 
concentration of effort.
> 
>> . If you want something done right, do it yourself, I guess.
> 
> Maybe but you will have to patch every update which is exactly why doing 
> it locally is a problem for distribution and end users. Exceptions are 
> made for things like bugs that are fixed before being upstreamed.

Keeping the patch count down and not having to maintain patches upon 
patches is understandable. Customizing a system where it does what the 
user intends is practical, either as an end user or as a developer. I 
might take a gander into customizing my biggest rants out of programs 
and recompiling the rpms. The code is available, why not.

> 
>>
>> So having an installer where everything that is on the installation 
>> disks is never going to happen?
> 
> Dont know. I personally dont want that in the interface though I am not 
> a Anaconda developer. I am not sure installing things like every 
> language in the disk is going to be useful. 

As commented earlier on this thread by another poster, honoring the 
language selection globally would be desirable for everything but 
selected language package installations. Since all upstream programs are 
not packaged in rpms but are later packaged into rpms. I believe rpm 
needs to contain some language detecting feature where information could 
later be transferred for use by an installer referencing the particular 
language selected at install. I realize there are many programs that 
really have no other rational way to determine what scheme the 
development project decided to code their language specific components.

> Kickstart can be used to shoot yourself in the foot. It allows for
> all kind of customisability unless there is a bug.

I have not tried to configure or use kickstart yet. Is it possible to 
glob a simple * for installation within these files?

Jim