Hi
Instead of the "Everything" install, I'll try to make the case for bulk
selections as outlined above, note that in some cases this relates to
perceived rather than actual need:
1) Testers who want to test every corner of the system.
Enable the option only during test/devel releases and disable them in
the GA release.
2) Some of 1) might even be journalists and fair share of them labels
things missing if they can't find them or missed to install them. Or so
it seems to me.
3) The survivalist type: Mobile users/developers/... who'd rather waste
some disk space than find themselves having something not installed when
they're away from net access.
Improve the post installation package management to be flexible so that
it can offer to install packages from CD/DVD.
4) Hunter-gatherers who want everything under the sun just because it
exists and no you won't make them behave with rational arguments.
We shouldnt be designing Fedora for corner cases just because users dont
listen to rational arguments.
5) Number 4) light, if they install on a spare machine to "browse" the
new version in order to decide what they actually need. Rarely seen ;-).
So admittedly a corner case.
First, software just installed usually should only cause updates to take
longer. If we distribute software, it'd better be secure. Nevertheless
we shouldn't enable to many daemons by default, rather have the users
activate them if they need them. The issues you bring up can be handled
differently than by not installing specific software IMO.
True but I dont see much traction in cutting down the number of services
and everything installation definitedly brings in a number of
unnecessarily services. If you want to help, refer to
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DefaultServices
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Rahul
Fedora Bug Triaging - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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