On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 01:34 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > When it comes to installing FC5-T3, the package managers > the Fedora-Team supplied really makes the installation > experience VERY poor. It is VERY unstable. The current > package manager (Add/Remove Software) appears to have been > written and designed by someone's 5 year old kid; is slapped > together ad-hoc, poorly designed and is absolutely useless for > the hurried installer. Prepare to sit in front of your monitor > and select your "all packages" choices, one-by-one and cross your > fingers - you *might* make it, you *might* not. Alas - my eyes > are bloodshot after 3 days. I haven't used FC5, and the above seems in the wrong list, but I've found similar problems with prior releases. You'd spend ages selecting packages, and it'd bomb out. You had to spend ages selecting packages because it cannot be done quickly (the system is too slow). For mass installations, being able to configure it all to be done in one hit is an advantage. But for individual users who might install an OS once in a blue moon, it's far easier if you install a *basic* system, get that to boot up normally, then run a package manager in a comfortable working environment. Rather than some low res screen where your mouse doesn't work, and you only have slow speed access to a CD-ROM drive. Unfortunately it's not easy to do, the minimum install has no X. The minimum install installs more than what I call minimum. And installing X manually is not so easy, there's more X packages than you need. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
