On 03/06/2005 02:57:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
But 'everything' includes things that aren't in any other set.
> There already are some predefined sets, such as desktop and workstation > - but Anaconda is written in Python, and the PyPsychic module that > detects what the user really wants automagically isn't quite finished > yet.
The original posted stated clearly what he wanted, and I'll second the
request. I want one selection to give me all the programs because I
don't know without trying them whether I want them or not and I can't
try them if they aren't installed.
You can select them in the package selection process - choose desktop or workstation or whatever and then choose to select individual packages within that subset.
That has worked at least since RH 6.x and probably earlier.
That's what I do - lets me deselect Helix and select Totem, deselect OO.o and Evolution and select AbiWord, Gnumeric, Balsa, etc. Let's me add postfix. Let's me add Apache.
The selections gets you close, but there is no way for Anaconda to know what you do or don't want from each group.
You can always install packages later - in fact, I highly recommend you copy all the rpm's from the install media onto your HD anyway and set it up as a file based repo, so that if you yum install something from Extras that depends upon something you didn't install, you don't have to fetch the base package from the web - it's there.
What would be nifty is if Anaconda could (optionally) do that for you - optionally only copying the rpm's you didn't install, so that it would use less space.
-- Michael A. Peters http://mpeters.us/
