FC5T2 ready for even a test release?

[Tony Molloy]

On Friday 20 January 2006 14:52, Justin Conover wrote:
> On 1/19/06, Richard Hally <rhally at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> What I find funny in all of this, is people are complaining about
> "everything" option and in the same e-mail talking about "to much
> bloat" seems a tad odd.

For most users I agree that the everything install causes more problems 
than it's worth. But in my case and several others it's very useful.

We have to install Fedora onto several hundred machines twice a year for 
our student labs. Now what we normally do is "An Everything Install". 
Then we download a script from a server and run it on each machine. This 
script installs any extra rpms we need, like java, configures the 
machines to our requirements and disables any unwanted services etc. 
Fairly simple.

Now without "An Everything Install" we install the default packages. This 
will not install many packages from the base repository, for instance the 
openoffice language packs or the xorg fonts. We need these because some 
of our students will want to use their native language for some purposes. 
Also some lecturer will always require some package that's not in the 
default install but that he has on his machine. And in general they won't 
tell you about this untill after the semester has started ;-(

Now we could do a "yum install --exclude*debug* \*" after the initial 
install to get the remaining packages, but that requires several Gb of 
space on the /var/cache partition which is a waste.

So please please give us back the "Everything Install" even if it's well 
hidden in the installer :-)

Tony


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Tony Molloy.

Dept. of Comp. Sci.
University of Limerick