On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:42 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On Mon, 8 May 2006, Mark Haney wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > >> It is just not worth my time. Next time it will be SUSE instead. > >> > >> -Frank > > > > Good luck with that. I have a SUSE box that has virtually nothing > > installed by default. You think Fedora's installation is sparse? I was > > amazed at the total lack of packages installed in SUSE. Really, it's a > > total joke to work on that server. It has KDE /and/ GNOME installed (on > > a /server/ no less) and yet I had to install the sysstat packages along > > with ntpd and about 3 or 4 others just to make the server really > > manageable. The SUSE install is just silly. The Fedora installer is at > > least more /sane/ than most other installers I've seen or used. > > > > But it seems rather childish to switch distros just for that. Kind of > > like taking your ball and going home, eh? > > I found the FC5 lack of 'install everything' to be a really serious pain > on the machine I built a week and a half ago as I had to do it three or > four times in a row as I worked through the problems I was having with > install media. > > It is aggravated by the fact that choosing a group of things doesn't > actually mean you get everything in that group, either, and so you have to > manually tick through nearly *every* menu to make sure that you have > actually have a full install. You can right click on a group in both the Installer and Pirut to select every package in a group. Otherwise you might use kickstart. Rahul
