Custom installation of Fedora

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:05:45 +0930,
  Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Tim:
> >> Have you checked how many gigs there are?
> 
> Bruno Wolff III:
> > It's worse than the size of the repos. The repos are under 20 GB. But
> > when you install a repo things get a lot bigger. I have 40 GB roots
> > (/home is on a different device) that are filling up when all the
> > games and language stuff is installed. (Though some of the games are
> > from rpmfusion.) So it might fit on a 64 GB device. But I wouldn't be
> > surprised if it was a bit over that.
> 
> And you still think installing everything is a good idea??

For some people. And installing everything on a DVD image makes more sense
than everything in a Fedora repo. And as I mentioned earlier if people want
that, we can recommend using a live DVD since they do install every package
that is installed on the media.

For myself I like to have lots of stuff installed both so that I see problems
(missing obsoletes and the like) that I can file bugs for and to make it
easier to find/try things when I am looking for packages that might allow
me to do a new task (or do an old one differently).

If I had somewhat more disk space, I would install everything that didn't
conflict (and there are some things that have conflicts that really should
get fixed). I don't want to tie up that much space, so I just install lots
of stuff instead of all stuff.