fc5: install everything?

[Jim Cornette]

Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 07:20 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> I have no objections to including an easy and up front method to install 
>> all that is available on the install medium.
> 
> One of the things to note is that Fedora is going away from the model of
> a large core. At least in theory.
> 
> Many apps have been moved from Core to Extras - for example, AbiWord,
> Pan, Gnumeric, etc. - as this transition happens, "install everything"
> is not what it use to be.


With all of the trimming down proposed and parts that already have taken 
place, it would not be worthwhile to have install medium which only 
provided for core. Since Core is targeted for extreme reduction, an 
everything install would probably be default. :-)


> 
> There is even a push to move KDE out of core and into Extras:
> 
> http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/UnleashKDE


Isn't there a group that has repositories for KDE for Redhat (Fedora) 
already? Are the current developers/packagers going to work within the 
Fedora-Extras group for KDE?

> 
> Installing "everything" for the purposes described in this thread will
> not have the same effect - you are going to have to have all of Extras
> to get that effect, because a lot of what you get when you "install
> everything" in older Fedora Core _is_ going bye bye out of Core anyway.
> 

Is the goal to make an affordable RHEL or for Less for more as in fossil 
fuels in recent practices?

Jim


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