RFE: Other "Everything" installs

[Tom Diehl]

On 26 Jul 2003, Chris Kloiber wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:29, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 16:22, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > I typically do Everything installs on my personal workstations. 
> > > Simplifies life greatly.
> > > 
> > > However, it would be nice if there were:
> > > 
> > > "Everything ONLY English" (ie, no foreign language support)
> > > 
> > > "Everything NO Development"
> > > 
> > > Comments?
> > 
> > Definitely dont' think that's a good idea.  It solves perhaps your
> > problem, but I'm there are many users who have other specific package
> > sets they'd love install options for too.  What we'd end up with is an
> > Everything menu with tons of semi-Everythings, covering everything
> > imaginable, even tho they aren't Everything.  ~,^
> > 
> > Seriously, it's not that much work to just select the package groups. 
> > If you do find yourself spending too much time on it, quit reinstalling
> > your machines so often.  ;-)  Or just use Kickstart.
> 
> I think more people speak other languages than do speak American
> English, but I understand where you are going with the original
> suggestion. I sort of expanded on that idea as I personally think it's a
> good one, and filed this bugzilla report:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=100888
> 
> You can read my suggestion there, but I can't say how much traction it
> will get for this release. It's more than likely too late for now.

FWIW, It is already closed as WONTFIX.


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