On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 11:35 -0500, James Hubbard wrote: > There are 80 machines in a cluster. He has 30 boxes sitting on desks. > There are potentially another 90 machines. It sounds like a mixed > use environment in a location like a school. He might know what > applications he wants, but it's doubtful that he can anticipate all of > the needs of his users. It's easier to just install everything and > let them use what they want. It minimizes the number of calls that he > has to field from his users requesting that something be installed. What this says to me is that we need to make it a more seamless experience for if you don't find something in the main menu, to get it installed. We have the "Add/Remove Software" link but unfortunately it's based on packages which aren't the same thing as applications. There is work going on around this which might land in the Fedora 9 timeframe. > I personally don't like to install everything. I know developers who > like to install all so they don't have to go track down packages later > when they need them. Right, we should also make it trivial to cache whatever RPMs you want in the yum cache. That's not the same thing as having them installed. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
