Downloading everything under .../Everything .../Fedora
Anne Wilson
cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Jun 21 12:44:03 UTC 2008
On Saturday 21 June 2008 13:32:05 David Boles wrote:
> Frank Murphy wrote:
> > What is the best method to download everything under
> > the ../Everything .../Fedora from one of the mirrors wget?
> > waht options
> >
> > Need the F9 stuff for testing.
>
> Why would you want to download 'everything'? To fill up space on your hard
> drive? ;-)
>
> Seriously. That would be in the neighborhood of 9+ gigs of packages. Why
> not just install what you want to test?
I'm sure, too, that we were warned off about downloading everything. I can't
remember the details, but I think it went along the lines of 'some things
will conflict, and some applications will have library problems'. Of course,
that may be mis-remembered, but it was certainly a strong warning off.
Anne
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