Tim: >> Is it really that hard to figure out that if you don't want to take >> discs with you that you should copy them to your hard drive? >> >> Sure, there's various ways of doing this for installation convenience >> sake (local YUM repos, etc), but it's pretty obvious that copying the >> disc structure to the hard drive as an installation tree allows you >> people to install from local files later on Richard Pixley: > Actually, it doesn't. I need to know a lot more about the install > format, structures, policies, and databases than I do now to use that > approach. That's why I've never used it in the past but instead just > always installed "everything". Actually it "does" allow it. You *can* simply copy the files, and simply install the ones you want, later on. You *can*, if you don't like messing with RPM, install something to let you manage installations in a more user-friendly manner. You don't *need* to try and "install" everything just to avoid having to track discs around with you or download files from the internet. > Even needing to go back and find one single package makes the > distribution more costly than I'm willing to afford. I wonder how you cope within using any computer, at all, then? Many applications are less than user-friendly, and require the operator to jump through hoops just to use them. > That one package will take me an hour or two to hunt down, install, > sort through possible conflicts, (which I presume the original > packagers took into account at the time but may no longer be > relevant), test, then figure out how to get that distributed to all of > my users as well. Hogwash! And a very appropriate random fortune cookie was chosen by my mail client, so for a change I won't delete it before posting: To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
