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It is just not worth my time. Next time it will be SUSE instead.
-Frank
Good luck with that. I have a SUSE box that has virtually nothing
installed by default. You think Fedora's installation is sparse? I was
amazed at the total lack of packages installed in SUSE. Really, it's a
total joke to work on that server. It has KDE /and/ GNOME installed (on
a /server/ no less) and yet I had to install the sysstat packages along
with ntpd and about 3 or 4 others just to make the server really
manageable. The SUSE install is just silly. The Fedora installer is at
least more /sane/ than most other installers I've seen or used.
But it seems rather childish to switch distros just for that. Kind of
like taking your ball and going home, eh?
Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 12:27:56PM +1030, Tim wrote:
>
>> Discussed to death here over the last few weeks. But in summary,
>> "everything" never really installed "everything", and if you
actually
> The point it took to click one checkbox to install a shitload of packages.
> User attention is a scarce resource.
>
> Hard drive space and bandwidth is effectively free. Time is not.
>
>> did "install" *everything* you'd have conflicts up to your
earholes, not
> Is "conflicts up to your earlobes" supposed to be a feature?
> Why can't conflicts be autoresolved? Why are there conflicts in the
> first place?
>
>> to mention masses of updates to manage.
> If I asked for it, and bandwidth is no issue, I don't see why this
> is a problem.
>
> Please stop rationalizing deficits being features. They're not.
>
>
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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415
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