Dan Mack wrote: > I've been running cooker on 3 of my systems for a few months now and I > find myself missing an option that Redhat has had for a while and that is > the 'install everything' checkbox in the install tool. > > Even after checking every single box on the select software scrren of > Mandrake, things like 'unzip' aren't even installed. This gets a little > tedious, especially if you have a big server with plenty of space and you > don't want to traverse 20 submenus just to get all the stuff you need to > use the system effectively. > > Thoughts, comments? > > > > >
First of all, MAndrake has many more packages than RH. Second, some packages conflict with each other and cannot be installed side-by side (Glide libraries and Zope servers, for example). And please don't tell Mandrake to pick. You know no matter what they pick, it will be starting a holy war. Last I looked, recommended install didn't install emacs which is my favorite IDE, and second favorite desktop... But during install (individual package selection) there is a little symbol at the bottom which looks like two blue arrows chasing each other -- click that -- Presto! A flat list comes up so you can pick your favorite packages in collating sequence. Civileme
