Where is my "everything" gone?

n0dalus n0dalus+redhat at gmail.com
Wed Apr 12 19:06:14 UTC 2006


On 4/13/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 20:04 +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > At this point, installing is a lottery as to whether the applications
> > you need will be there, because no sane human has the attention span
> > to check every little submenu.  Install everything was a way to win
> > this lottery by throwing money, i.e. hard drive space, at it.  You can
> > always remove things afterwards, you don't need a media or a network
> > connection for that.  Or, with current hard drive sizes, just leave it
> > that way and just don't start or configure what you don't need at a
> > particular point in time.
>
> Fresh users enjoy looking through the menus to see what all is there.  I
> do it from time to time to see if there is anything new.  Don't speak
> for all users.
>

I agree, but this doesn't mean that a 'select all/none' button is a
terrible feature.

n0dalus.




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