Pixel wrote:
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> Kevin Forge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I chose "developer" and "Expert" and the maximum size setting. The
> > installer still didn't put this RPM on. I did some more checking
> > and there are several RPMs that were not installed.
>
> can you give the list of packages you think should be have been installed and
> weren't?
>
> we really can't install everything (you get 2.4GB)!
It ate ~1.9GB anyway. Sometimes HD space is less of a concern than
having everything on the hard drive and ready to run. My '/'
partition is 4 GB just in case.
The only things I can readily think of that should be left out when
the user asks for "everything" are foreign language documentation and
the X servers ( The current scheme of loading the one that's detected
is OK ). Even then there should be an easy way to load even those
items too.
manually expanding the software tree and selecting individual packages
is dull when you want them all.
The other important file I could think of is 'bind'. Not only did I
have to load this manually, but I had to set it up as a "caching only
name server" by hand.
Maybe the "server" install dose this by default, but caching DNS
requests and acting as a light duty gateway could be called a
desktop function. Of course the "high security" server kernel kills
some desktop functions. Like automount ( and it should ).
BTW : When I select server it leaves out even more desktop specific
stuff.
