On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 11:35 -0500, James Hubbard wrote:
There are 80 machines in a cluster. He has 30 boxes sitting on
desks.
There are potentially another 90 machines. It sounds like a mixed
use environment in a location like a school. He might know what
applications he wants, but it's doubtful that he can anticipate all of
the needs of his users. It's easier to just install everything and
let them use what they want. It minimizes the number of calls that he
has to field from his users requesting that something be installed.
What this says to me is that we need to make it a more seamless
experience for if you don't find something in the main menu, to get it
installed. We have the "Add/Remove Software" link but unfortunately
it's based on packages which aren't the same thing as applications.
There is work going on around this which might land in the Fedora 9
timeframe.
I personally don't like to install everything. I know developers
who
like to install all so they don't have to go track down packages later
when they need them.
Right, we should also make it trivial to cache whatever RPMs you want in
the yum cache. That's not the same thing as having them installed.