'everything' install option in FC5test1

Willem Riede wrrhdev at riede.org
Sat Nov 26 14:32:17 UTC 2005


On 11/26/2005 12:50:26 AM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 23:56 +0200, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> > It seems that with Everything install option gone in FC5 test1, one
> > cannot install all packages from CD. I'm still downloading it so I
> > cannot test by myself yet, but Jeremy's reply suggests it won't be added
> > back (how are the package groups handled with multiple repositories?).
> 
> Everything is a bit of a disaster in a lot of ways.  Some people think
> that it shouldn't include language-specific packages.  Some people think
> it should.  With multiple repositories, should it include all of the
> packages from all of the repositories?  What happens if there are
> conflicts?  And that's in addition to mattdm's helpful comments in the
> bug :)

That one is solvable by calling it "everything from core" and having a
follow-up dialog to select language(s)...

As if you didn't have enough to do :-)

Regards, Willem Riede.




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