On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:22, Andy Green wrote: > > > > That's why you have yum. > > But look at the trend in distro sizes, they aren't shrinking. Why not > install everything in extras at the same time according to the logic of > trying to dodge missing deps. And maybe Dag or Livna too. The whole > idea doesn't scale, and make needless load on the update mirrors as well > as the increased security perimeter. OK, so we need some intelligence about what should be included in a distribution rather than ways to avoid installing what is on the CD's. > > So how do you ever decide to run a new program? > > Turning that around, how, as you imply, does installing everything help > you to decide to run a new program? Apropos? xman used to be the nicest way, but nobody bothers with man pages anymore. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
