some curious FC5 install defaults

alan alan at clueserver.org
Wed Mar 22 16:35:59 UTC 2006


On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>  a few questions about some of the default package selections during
> FC5 installation:
>
> * when selecting KDE, the only one of the 11 packages *not*
> automatically selected for install is "kdeadmin."  that seems a bit
> odd -- one would think that would be at least as useful as some of the
> others that are selected by default.
>
> * when both GNOME and KDE desktops are selected, gnome-games are
> automatically selected but kdegames are not.  just a wee bit of bias
> here? :-)
>
> * i'm surprised "xpdf" is not automatically selected as part of
> Office/Productivity since it's a pretty fundamental piece of software.
> has it been superseded by something else?
>
> * under "Development Tools", i would have thought both dejagnu and
> expect would be reasonable choices for default installation.

I would expect "sharutils" to get installed, as well as "kernel-devel" if 
you pick the "Development" option in Anaconda.

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