On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 17:13:14 -0400, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
The software development tools is a particular pain point: I've found it easier to reinstall a system that missed that option rather than endure a never-ending battle with missing packages. "No C compiler?! wtf? Okay. Gcc installed. ... C++ doesn't work? argh!"
Groups might be a help here. For example in the above case, yum groupinstall "Development Tools" might solve most of the problem.