fc5: install everything?
Andreas M. Kirchwitz
fedora-list at list.zikzak.de
Fri May 26 21:43:08 UTC 2006
Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> 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.
Even if all groups and their packages are selected,
quite a number of packages are installed without their
according devel package (like gtk+-devel, glib-devel or
ImageMagick-devel). This can be annoying if you want to
compile some software yourself.
I usually prefer to have packages installed complete
or not at all. But installing only some parts of them,
that is confusing.
I think, there's room for improvement.
Greetings, Andreas
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