"install everything" and @everything dumped

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Fri Feb 24 17:51:53 UTC 2006


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).


you assume it's even possible to (sanely) install all packages, which I
think already was not the case for a while, with an increasing number of
special cases to keep the "almost everything" install working....

(kernels and other rpms with conflicting files etc etc)




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