On 8/2/2011 10:28 AM, 夜神 岩男 wrote:
>
>> 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).
It would be nice if someone who chose the available packages and has at
least some understanding of them would also provide an 'everything'
choice that is a set of all the package that won't cause weird things to
happen. Disk space is cheap and it is much easier to explore/test
programs when they are installed than by reading the itty-bitty blurb
that 'yum info' gives. Was there anyone in the fedora-land discussion
who thought an end user would really be able to select packages
sight-unseen better than the people who made the choice of packages to
be included in the distro?
> ...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"?
Agreed - it is something that upstream should provide too. Or at least
a yum group or list of packages in a form that yum would understand to
install them later.
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Les Mikesell
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