From esr@thyrsus.com Fri Jan 5 17:43:39 2007 From: "Eric S. Raymond" To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Fedora 7 (Everything installs) Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:43:31 -0500 Message-ID: <20070105224331.GA2961@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: <1168036338.3561.22.camel@lt21223.campus.dmacc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0374221375319263898==" --===============0374221375319263898== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeffrey C. Ollie : > While an "everything" install may have made some sense in the pre-Extras > days, it's just silly now. There are so many packages in Core+Extras, > many of which duplicate functionality. Nebvertheless, there are real uses for "install everything". Notably, one can be working tools that are designed to audit the entire distribution. When I test doclifter, I want the largest possible corpus of man pages to work on. -- Eric S. Raymond --===============0374221375319263898==--