[CentOS] Missing dependency in C6 ISO

Karanbir Singh mail-lists at karan.org
Sat Aug 11 18:49:27 UTC 2012


On 08/11/2012 07:40 PM, fred smith wrote:
>> I can also confirm that its impossible to install everything on
>> CentOS-6. That is by design, there are functional overlaps that are
>> enforced at the rpm level that prevent you from doing so.
> KB: I assume this was done for some useful purpose, not simply to 
> make sure nobody can install everything if they want to...

Right, its based on duplicate functionality. in some cases ( like
sendmail + postfix ) you can indeed install both. But in others, you cant.

> back in the RH5/6 days (not RHEL) I used to commonly choose an
> "everything" installation. now that the distribution is so big
> I don't even try, anymore.

yeah, and the idea of 'everything' is a bit odd given that you can now
include external repos - so you might get an everything install that
brings in 12,000 rpms - runs for 3 days to get done - and needs 50GB of
disk space :)..


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