fc5: install everything?

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Tue May 9 19:27:19 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 08:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 01:15, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Sorry - but "installing everything" is just plain silly in most cases.
> > > 
> > > I don't know which packages and libraries I'm going to need tomorrow.
> > 
> > You never need to explicitly ask for libraries unless you are a
> > developer. yum will find them.
> 
> And for your users that *are* developers???

you install the devel packages you need to work with.
Choosing "software development", "gnome-development", and
"kde-development" groups will get most of them for you.




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