On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 07:25, Andy Green wrote:
> > hear them - the install everthing voices were universally dismissed by
> > those that didn't want it.
>
> What should have happened differently? Personally I would get rid of
> the installer completely, it's a pervy one-shot bag of weirdness.
While I've argued a little for the usefulness of 'everything', what
I really think is needed is a simple facility to allow anyone
to 'share' their current configuration. That is, anyone who
has installed a set of programs that they consider useful for
some particular purpose should have a push-button-simple way
to export the yum repositories and list of rpm packages so
that anyone else could duplicate that exact setup with a
single command or equivalent push-button. Also to clone
machines, you would do a miminal install - just enough to
run yum and this automation package or even better make it
work from a bootable CD and do a complete install to match
an existing machine. Then we need to have a few dozen experts
upload their lists along with a description of the purpose
of the machines.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
