[CentOS] Re: 5.0: installing everything

[Scott Silva]

Les Mikesell spake the following on 5/2/2007 12:52 PM:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 
>> In that case ... you can just do this after install:
>>
>> yum install \*
>>
>> It will install everything.
>>
>> _HOWEVER_ ... don't do it unless you need everything !!!!
>>
>> If you think you need everything ... you probably don't ... if you
>> really, really, really need everything then OK, install it.
> 
> How do you know if you need something unless you install and try it?
> 
> The thing I always wanted from an 'everything' install was the expertise
> of the distribution packager as to whether something would likely be
> useful to have installed.  Someone, somewhere must have known enough
> about the packages to decide what was worth including in the
> distribution.  I'd take their word for whether it should be on my hard
> disk or not.
> 
If the distribution packager wanted you to install everything, there would not
be any options of what to install. It would always be an "everything" install.



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