On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 15:26 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Jeff Vian wrote: > > >I would agree on the wish for an option to select a group and expect all > >within it to be installed. As examples, mysql and postresql would be > >nice for that. With FC4 less than half the individual packages for those > >groups were installed by default and it was time consuming to do the > >full groups. However, IIRC the installer has never allowed selecting an > >entire group with a single check mark. Groups can be installed in > >entirety from the command line with yum. > > > > > Both Anaconda and Pirut allows groups of packages to be installed. > Optional components arent selected within the groups by default but the > major packages including MySQL and PostgreSQL is selected within the > group usually. > IIRC, on FC4 either the mysql-server or the postgresql-server was one that was not selected by default within the group - Kind of a major necessity. Have not done an FC4 install for months, so it is hard to remember the fine details. I am looking forward to seeing the finalized version of the installer for FC5. I could not use the graphical installer with T3 because of problems with the nv video driver, but maybe that has been fixed by now.
