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 :).. -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc