Michael A. Peters <mpeters(a)mac.com> wrote:
>>>> Sorry - but "installing everything" is just
plain silly in most cases.
>>>
>>> I don't know which packages and libraries I'm going to need
tomorrow.
>>
>> You never need to explicitly ask for libraries unless you are a
>> developer. yum will find them.
>
> And for your users that *are* developers???
you install the devel packages you need to work with.
Choosing "software development", "gnome-development", and
"kde-development" groups will get most of them for you.
Even if all groups and their packages are selected,
quite a number of packages are installed without their
according devel package (like gtk+-devel, glib-devel or
ImageMagick-devel). This can be annoying if you want to
compile some software yourself.
I usually prefer to have packages installed complete
or not at all. But installing only some parts of them,
that is confusing.
I think, there's room for improvement.
Greetings, Andreas