On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Nils Philippsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 20:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > > > > > > No it doesnt. I made my argument with detailed rationale on why > > > I believe it is not useful in general cases. If you disagree > > > with me, feel free to do so but I would like to hear a detailed > > > set of use cases that make it a convincing enough argument for > > > Anaconda to support it for end users apart from Kickstart > > > capability. > > What most people complain about here is AFAICS that we completely > > removed (instead of just hid) an option they valued and that was a > > well tested (by them), supposedly no-brainer sort of code path, > > very much unlikely to give any problems down the road. > You are thinking about this from the development perspective. The > code base is a no brainer but from the support perspective the > number of issues that a everything installation has caused is > innumerous. Specifically in Fedora, try doing a everythings > installation of FC4 and try running yum update. Watch GFS module > packages fail. short response: what on earth are GFS-related packages doing as part of a *standard* FC install? i mean, seriously -- why would regular users *ever* want to install clustering software? longer response: perhaps i misunderstood one of the eventual goals, but wasn't it part of the plan to *pare down* what would be a standard install of FC, and move a lot of what's there now onto supplementary disks? that approach would solve a lot of problems. seriously, i've never understood why FC4 sucked up 4 entire CDs. why not just make the "Everything" install reflect a much more stripped install, and leave the rest of it for firstboot or something like that? i can imagine at least a couple categories that would make sense to push off until firstboot: 1) office software (OOo, as if you couldn't guess) 2) multimedia (all audio/video stuff) and so on. wasn't this part of the eventual plan? or something vaguely like it? rday -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list