On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, tester wrote: > 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...
Mandrake already picks. And, they didn't pick zip/unzip. > 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. Yes, I know how to do it, it's just much more work with mandrake and manddrake seems to leave some obvious defaults off the list. Even XP comes with unzip LOL! Dan
