Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> Sorry - but "installing everything" is just plain silly in most cases. >>>> >>>> I don't know which packages and libraries I'm going to need tomorrow. >>> >>> You never need to explicitly ask for libraries unless you are a >>> developer. yum will find them. >> >> And for your users that *are* developers??? > > you install the devel packages you need to work with. > Choosing "software development", "gnome-development", and > "kde-development" groups will get most of them for you. Even if all groups and their packages are selected, quite a number of packages are installed without their according devel package (like gtk+-devel, glib-devel or ImageMagick-devel). This can be annoying if you want to compile some software yourself. I usually prefer to have packages installed complete or not at all. But installing only some parts of them, that is confusing. I think, there's room for improvement. Greetings, Andreas
