On 1/6/07, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
That doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Many people have asked for all sorts of misguided features. Thankfully most of the time, sanity has prevailed. > Now that the merge is happening, let's *restore* the > feature that existed for years. The merge makes the case for not doing it even stronger. Before it was feasible that someone might not have extras configured, and might want everything from core. core+extras today is around 5000 packages iirc. This is only going to get bigger. How can possibly make sense to install every package known to man? How do you deal with conflicting packages that want to do the same thing (like say, binding to a network socket). How do you navigate a gnome application menu with thousands of applications? Given a typical install today takes way too long, an everything install of 5000 packages must be hurrendous. And god, if people think yum takes too long now, installing updates for 5000 packages sounds like a world of unfun. It's a seriously bad idea that makes less sense over time.
Completely agree with you ! -- http://vnoss.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
