Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Jeffrey C. Ollie jeff@ocjtech.us:
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.
There are easy ways to do this with yum or kickstart even now.
Rahul