Checkbox for "Install Everything"

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Sun May 20 22:22:57 UTC 2007


From: "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

> jack wallen wrote:
> 
>>>>> Can we please, Please, **___PLEASE___** have that option back for 
>>>>> F7?  It makes installation so much easier and faster...
>>>>
>>>> Clearly you missed the discussion wherein it was resolved by the
>>>> OCD police that an install everything button is the worse possible
>>>> heresy imaginable.
>>>
>>> I guess they have concluded that fedora is no longer usable as a 
>>> general purpose multi-user machine and you can only run it as a 
>>> specialized server or a pc-like desktop.
>>>
>> which is a decision that might very well have pushed me over the edge 
>> into switching to a new distribution.
> 
> The checkbox I want is "assume dozens of people will be using this box 
> for  development and office work in a 24x7 shop - if they want to run 
> something that isn't installed, they'll call your cell phone at any 
> hour".  That gives the right perspective against wasting a few dollars 
> worth of disk space.

Les, is that as in having multiple remote X sessions from "diskless"
workstations to the box or as in multiple serial terminals?

{^_^}   Curious person wants to know.




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