On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 00:19 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
I was about to submit a bug report that neither does the installer
simply allow my to throw the full contents of the DVD onto my disk
anymore, nor do any of my kickstart files work with FC5 anymore, when
I found that this was not a bug or a temporary shortcoming, but was
done on purpose (at least according to a post by R. Sundaram which
sounded quite authoritative).
It can't be sane to force a user to have to select the bits from the
CDs/DVDs. The majority of the users want to get the beast on their
system and see what's up with it. The older generation like me browse
the man pages and /usr/share/doc, the younger use the graphical
menus. Neither want to start poking with depsolvers into rpm metadata
for fishing interesting software and play CD jokey afterwards.
Please bring @everything or equivalent back.
I agree, but with a caveat specified.
Everything should not truly be _everything_ !! If I select an English
language install, then everything should not dump *all* the other
languages onto my system. An everything install should dump everything
for the _language chosen_ onto my system.
This little selection refinement makes several hundred megabytes
difference in install size. aspell, OOo, man pages, etc. are areas of
major bloat if it does not limit the selection to honor the language I
have selected for my install.