On Wednesday 26 October 2005 3:29 pm, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 13:57, Robert Locke wrote: > > My argument is that the "Everything" install needs to die!! <evil grin> > > How do you propose that people should learn which thousand programs > they might want to use if there isn't a convenient way to get them > all at once? And how will fedora get it's bugs fixed if nobody > installs the stuff and reports them? I would add an amen - I started using Linux 16 months ago. I tried several of the install options before settling on 'everything'. I kept running into situations where I just didn't know enough to deal with various situations. People would discuss programs and other things that didn't seem to exist, for example. In another few months, I will probably go to more selective installs and not do the 'everything' option any longer. But for this user, having everything on my machine was a lot more important than security. I really could have cared less these past 16 months whether my system got attacked or not - it was a learning machine, not a production box. I hope things are left just the way they are. Add a security warning to the 'everything' option, but don't remove it. -- Claude Jones Bluemont, VA, USA
