Scott Silva wrote:
>>
>> 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.
Not true. There was a time when distributions included "everything" as
one among several more specialized and limited choices. Now you only
get the limited versions.
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Les Mikesell
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