On 08/02/2011 06:44 PM, Roeland Mertens wrote:
On 02/08/2011 10:37, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Hi,
On 07/29/2011 11:05 AM, cephas kamuchira wrote:
I am just suggesting a new opinion on centos server. During the installation, why cant you add a check or click all box to select all packages you are going to install when choosing packages or service you want to install in the server. i have to do the clicking on 1 at a time just to install like 300 or more packages.
I suspect there is no reply to your email, since not many people were able to completely understand your point. Are you saying that when a group is selected, all rpms in that group ( mandatory and optional ) should be automatically selected ?
I am assuming that he means to suggest a button to "select all" in a group. Right now on certain groups when you select them for installation will only install for example 11/93, I think he means to add a button that allows him to add the other 82 in a single click.
We had this discussion in Fedora-land a while back. There are pretty solid reasons why this was removed in Fedora and later RHEL as an option (the FESCo logs of it are around somewhere, as are a few blogs detailing this after the fact).
Installing *everything* is not normal use and can cause weird things to happen (depending on use -- for example when alternatives install next to or over defaults and admins often don't realize this is happening, particularly with sendmail/postfix or 389-DS/OpenLDAP).
...and for people who *really* want to do this, 'yum install"*"' works just fine and lets you know a lot more than Anaconda does. The quotes around the * are necessary. This can be placed in a kickstart script or a firstrun hack but neither tier of upstream consider it a good idea to tempt the average person installing a system with such a nuclear option before they've even seen the system defaults working the way they were designed...
Anyway, wouldn't this break "binary compatibility with upstream"?
Just my $20
-Iwao