fc5: install everything?
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Mar 31 07:59:07 UTC 2006
Tim:
>> Is it really that hard to figure out that if you don't want to take
>> discs with you that you should copy them to your hard drive?
>>
>> Sure, there's various ways of doing this for installation convenience
>> sake (local YUM repos, etc), but it's pretty obvious that copying the
>> disc structure to the hard drive as an installation tree allows you
>> people to install from local files later on
Richard Pixley:
> Actually, it doesn't. I need to know a lot more about the install
> format, structures, policies, and databases than I do now to use that
> approach. That's why I've never used it in the past but instead just
> always installed "everything".
Actually it "does" allow it. You *can* simply copy the files, and
simply install the ones you want, later on. You *can*, if you don't
like messing with RPM, install something to let you manage installations
in a more user-friendly manner. You don't *need* to try and "install"
everything just to avoid having to track discs around with you or
download files from the internet.
> Even needing to go back and find one single package makes the
> distribution more costly than I'm willing to afford.
I wonder how you cope within using any computer, at all, then? Many
applications are less than user-friendly, and require the operator to
jump through hoops just to use them.
> That one package will take me an hour or two to hunt down, install,
> sort through possible conflicts, (which I presume the original
> packagers took into account at the time but may no longer be
> relevant), test, then figure out how to get that distributed to all of
> my users as well.
Hogwash!
And a very appropriate random fortune cookie was chosen by my mail
client, so for a change I won't delete it before posting:
To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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