"install everything" and @everything dumped

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 00:19 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> I was about to submit a bug report that neither does the installer
> simply allow my to throw the full contents of the DVD onto my disk
> anymore, nor do any of my kickstart files work with FC5 anymore, when
> I found that this was not a bug or a temporary shortcoming, but was
> done on purpose (at least according to a post by R. Sundaram which
> sounded quite authoritative).
> 
> It can't be sane to force a user to have to select the bits from the
> CDs/DVDs. The majority of the users want to get the beast on their
> system and see what's up with it. The older generation like me browse
> the man pages and /usr/share/doc, the younger use the graphical
> menus. Neither want to start poking with depsolvers into rpm metadata
> for fishing interesting software and play CD jokey afterwards.
> 
> Please bring @everything or equivalent back.

I agree, but with a caveat specified.

Everything should not truly be _everything_ !! If I select an English
language install, then everything should not dump *all* the other
languages onto my system. An everything install should dump everything
for the _language chosen_ onto my system. 

This little selection refinement makes several hundred megabytes
difference in install size.  aspell, OOo, man pages, etc. are areas of
major bloat if it does not limit the selection to honor the language I
have selected for my install.