On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:58, Tony Heaton wrote: > It's incredibly easy to install packages with yum. You can do single > package installs, you can do group installs. I don't see what the > problem is in not having an everything button. As has been pointed out > here many times, the everything button didn't ever install everything. > That could leave a new user thinking they had everything available when > they didn't. Why would anyone want to bloat a system with both Gnome > and KDE? On my systems, different people might use each. > Is there really a need for having xdm, kdm and gdm all loaded > on a machine at the same time? If there isn't, why are they on the CD? > How many window managers do you need? Perhaps as many as you have users that connect via X, vnc or freenx. > It's easy enough to install and remove packages that you can try > anything at anytime. Read the info about a package. If you like it, > install it an try it. If you don't like it, remove it. That can be pretty confusing in a multi-user setup. We are talking about a multi-user OS here aren't we? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
