From release notes for FC5T3 (web)

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:37, Andy Green wrote:

> >>> machine with 'everything' installed, how are you supposed to
> >>> find out what is available and if you like it?
> >> Lots of packages can be installed and not really discoverable from the
> >> system menus.  If a commandline utility goes in /usr/bin then unless you
> >> know the name you will likely never be aware of it (I guess apropos
> >> might help).  So "install everything" so I can try things is really
> >> "bloat me" with many things I will never know I have.
> > 
> > OK, how do you try out those things?  If you are content with
> > the packages from years ago, why install a new system at all?
> 
> Sorry I didn't understand how that applied to what I said.  For the
> record I like new stuff that is better than the old stuff.  My point was
> that "install everything" is not the same as "discover everything".

OK, then explain the process of discovering everything without
installing it first.  That might save me a lot of time.  I don't
remember saying anything about menus, though - how do you find
the new command line programs when they and their corresponding
man pages aren't installed?

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  Les Mikesell
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