(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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