Fedora 7 (Everything installs)

[Vnpenguin]

On 1/6/07, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> 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 !

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