On Tuesday 08 May 2001 17:10, Don Head wrote:
> (Catching up on really old e-mail..)
>
> >> Many people are praying for a "all packages" button,
> >> just excluding locales-xx, ispell-xx and so on, but
> >> REALLY ALL. Newby has 30GB hard-disks, please let
> >> them (and me!) install 2,5 GB of free software
> >> without any pain...
> >
> > That we'll never do. We already have tried, this leads
> > to too much problems because of incompat packages. Our
> > business is anyway not to fill up the hd by countless
> > things.
>
> It's really sad to hear this. Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware,
> TurboLinux, they all have "Everything" or "Almost
> Everything" options. I'm curious why it's such a big
> deal for Mandrake.
>
> I've been using, promoting, and supporting Mandrake for
> a couple years now, and I don't like hearing things like
> this.
>
> I *LOVE* "Everything" installs. I never have to worry
> about keeping the CD-ROM handy. If for some strange
> reason I get the urge to use something new, it's already
> installed.
>
> I also work for a company that does Linux training. We
> find that an "Everything" install is the best way to load
> the machines so that users can play around with them. It
> also gives the different instructors a lot of flexibility
> in the classroom. Up until this point, we've always used
> Red Hat (kickstart everything install). I finally got
> the go-ahead to put a Mandrake 7.2 auto_inst on the
> classroom setup instructions. I didn't put 8.0 because
> it's auto_inst is slightly broken (as reported by someone
> else earlier, I plan on using his workaround to try it
> out at some point). The sad part is that I'm going to
> have to list a huge amount of packages in order to get
> anywhere near an "Everything" install. I hope it all
> fits on the floppy disk.
>
> Please, someone, put an "Everything" install back in.
> Even if it's not quite everything (due to package
> conflicts or whatever), it'll still be better than trying
> rpm -Uvh * after the install.
>
>
> Don Head
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I agree - it should be a standard option.
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