FC5T2 ready for even a test release?

[alan]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Horst von Brand wrote:

> Chris Tyler <chris at tylers.info> wrote:
> > > I'll add my voice to this chorus - please put the "everything" option back. 
> > > Put a warning in if you deem it necessary, but don't remove the option. Linux 
> > > is about choices - let us, the end-users, decide.
> > > -- 
> > > Claude Jones
> > > Bluemont, VA, USA
> 
> > Another $0.02 ... From the perspective of long-time a college prof.
> > teaching students who are learning Linux through exploration -- I
> > appreciate the 'everything' button and would very much like to see it
> > (or an easy-to-use equivalent) remain in FC5.
> 
> Yet another...
> 
> One of the first things I (try to) teach prospective Linux users is to set
> up their system with care, and know what they are installing (and what they
> will need it for). Blank CDs are cheap enough, keep a spare copy of the
> distro at hand (or download what you need, we keep an unofficial local
> mirror for that).

And unless you have a nice fast connection, updates can be a real pain.  

Install all the language packs from OpenOffice and see what happens.

The old reason for installing everything used to be that you needed it for 
building packages.  (Otherwise you could not always build all the 
languages you needed and stopping every time to add packages was a pain.)  
Programs like "mock" have made that unneccisary.

I would like to see a few things become easier to install from the initial 
install.  There are a handful of utilities that I use that I always have 
to install later.  ("tree" is the first that comes to mind.) I guess it is 
all in what you are used to using.  ("ncftp" is another.  CPAN wants that, 
if possible.)

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