Checkbox for "Install Everything"

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon May 21 07:25:17 UTC 2007


Alan Cox:
>> Oh no it wouldn't. Everything would be all of FC7 (the seperate extras is
>> gone). It would haul in a zillion weird and wonderful obscure apps, some
>> very large, and it would cause problems with conflicts between
>> "either/or" package choices.

jdow:
> Alan, at the risk of being booed out of here is not your admission above
> tantamount to admitting that RPM is broken? I realize that is heresey.
> But that IS about what you said.

It's hardly a RPM issue if users select mutually exclusive packages.
That's a logical issue that needs solving manually.  i.e. Which of these
packages don't *you* want installed, as a question to be answered by the
installing *person*.

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