On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 12:04 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Scott R Ehrlich wrote: > > Am I missing something? If this is true, and the team is still in development > > stage, can the EVERYTHING option be restored? > > the idea and concept of 'everything' becomes a bit hazy when you can add > repositories youself at install time. Also, you can easily just do a yum > install \* post install and get everything that your presently installed > repo's have available. > > - KB BTW ... one should never do an "Everything Install" on a production machine ... maybe for a machine is specifically for testing or building the full distro, etc. An "Everything Install" adds stuff that you will never use, and while most of the items are not "dangerous" by default, they do not need to be installed if not used. Even with the mostly conservative default settings, having services on your machine that you will never use makes your machine ripe for break ins and a root kit. Also take into account that there are several packages provided to do the SAME function (ie, exim, sendmail, postfix; you probably only need 1 mail server ... Evolution, Thunderbird ... you probably only need 1 e-mail client, etc.) There are even some options that conflict. Everything installs are bad :P ... that is why they are removed upstream. As KB said though ... if you absolutely have to have an everything install ... then you can either do: yum install \* OR Use pirut (system-config-packages) and select all the categories (and all the packages). Thanks, Johnny Hughes
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