Custom installation of Fedora

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sun Aug 23 14:05:10 UTC 2009


On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 09:50:39 +0100,
  Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 August 2009 00:13:28 Markus Kesaromous wrote:
> > During fedora install, if the user selects a customized  install rather
> > than the default, the user has to manually click on each and every app in
> > the selected group. This is horribly tedious. In the old RH releases, you
> > could just click on "Everything" button, and ALL of the rpms on the DVD
> > would get installed. Is it too much to ask to add the Install Everything
> > button for Fedora????
> >
> It was explained long ago that installing "everything" would throw up some 
> serious conflicts/problems that would stop many thing working correctly.

Which was really an indication of problems that needed to get fixed, not
specifically that there should never be an "Everything" button.
I think the original characterization of the issue as the Anaconda guys
don't want the feature, is the better explanation.




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