Fedora Users — Re: Checkbox for "Install Everything"

Alan Cox wrote:

Somewhere it seems to have fallen by the wayside.

Can we please, Please, **___PLEASE___** have that option back for F7?  It 
makes installation so much easier and faster...

Oh no it wouldn't. Everything would be all of FC7 (the seperate extras is
gone). It would haul in a zillion weird and wonderful obscure apps, some
very large, and it would cause problems with conflicts between
"either/or" package choices.

Selecting all the groups offered is intended to be a sane "all the stuff
you are likely to want" option, that fits in actual normal disk/time.

Alan

Apart from the obvious issues such as security and space a wide open install everything could cause other issues.
On a very old box that I use for a test bench I have tried installing ldap and each time I do it wipes out user passwords even before I configure ldap. I have not been able to find a second newer box I can give it a try on to see if it is an isolated issue on a box that is nearly too old to run FC6. If I did an install everything on this box I would never be able to get it running also as the box is light in the Ram department havening too many unnecessary services running would further complicate my problems with the box.
If not having an install everything option saves one person a reinstall the inconvenience of having to think for a moment about the packages you need seems a small price to pay.
Also in terms of band width the instal everything approach may be questionable. Generally I use a fresh install when I upgrade, I have found a minimal install requires only 2 cds and I can later update online only with the packages I want. I am sure this requires less bandwidth in total than install everything and then do the updates to everything.