Tim:
> Is it really that hard to figure out that if you don't want
to take
> discs with you that you should copy them to your hard drive?
>
> Sure, there's various ways of doing this for installation convenience
> sake (local YUM repos, etc), but it's pretty obvious that copying the
> disc structure to the hard drive as an installation tree allows you
> people to install from local files later on
Richard Pixley:
Actually, it doesn't. I need to know a lot more about the
install
format, structures, policies, and databases than I do now to use that
approach. That's why I've never used it in the past but instead just
always installed "everything".
Actually it "does" allow it. You *can* simply copy the files, and
simply install the ones you want, later on. You *can*, if you don't
like messing with RPM, install something to let you manage installations
in a more user-friendly manner. You don't *need* to try and "install"
everything just to avoid having to track discs around with you or
download files from the internet.
Even needing to go back and find one single package makes the
distribution more costly than I'm willing to afford.
I wonder how you cope within using any computer, at all, then? Many
applications are less than user-friendly, and require the operator to
jump through hoops just to use them.
That one package will take me an hour or two to hunt down, install,
sort through possible conflicts, (which I presume the original
packagers took into account at the time but may no longer be
relevant), test, then figure out how to get that distributed to all of
my users as well.
Hogwash!
And a very appropriate random fortune cookie was chosen by my mail
client, so for a change I won't delete it before posting:
To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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