Checkbox for "Install Everything"

[jdow]

From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>

> Alan Cox:
>>> Oh no it wouldn't. Everything would be all of FC7 (the seperate extras 
>>> is
>>> gone). It would haul in a zillion weird and wonderful obscure apps, some
>>> very large, and it would cause problems with conflicts between
>>> "either/or" package choices.
>
> jdow:
>> Alan, at the risk of being booed out of here is not your admission above
>> tantamount to admitting that RPM is broken? I realize that is heresey.
>> But that IS about what you said.
>
> It's hardly a RPM issue if users select mutually exclusive packages.
> That's a logical issue that needs solving manually.  i.e. Which of these
> packages don't *you* want installed, as a question to be answered by the
> installing *person*.

Done properly RPM would inform you of the conflict and do nothing. The
fact that it does something is dangerous.

{^_^}