FC5T2 ready for even a test release?

Sandy Pond sandy_pond at myrealbox.com
Fri Jan 27 03:20:48 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 12:18 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote:
> > I'll add my voice to this chorus - please put the "everything" option back. 
> > Put a warning in if you deem it necessary, but don't remove the option. Linux 
> > is about choices - let us, the end-users, decide.

> 
> Another $0.02 ... From the perspective of long-time a college prof.
> teaching students who are learning Linux through exploration -- I
> appreciate the 'everything' button and would very much like to see it
> (or an easy-to-use equivalent) remain in FC5.
> 

Installing "everything" is brain-dead ... if you install "everything"
then every time you update there's huge bundle of stuff to download
that's almost entirely irrelevant.

Use yum or yumex to explore packages.




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