Craig White wrote:
Remember the row we had about a year ago on the missing "Install
Everything" option? Myself, I'd much rather get as much installed during
the initial install, then to have to yum what I want, post install. Ric
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I was referring to exactly that with my hat tip to Claude...
I'm at the stage now where I have my own mirrors at work and I just
kickstart install the same suite on all computers and adjust from there
if necessary. Too much just weighs down each and every update.
I do appreciate that with dial-up, the experience does change.
(Just like all tools of similar nature) yum has a good potential of killing your
system when something unexpected happens. I have had yum kill a box at least
once after something like terminal session timeout or a ctrl-c. Something to the
effect of leaving two versions of each package with the subsequent destruction
of the system on the attempt to remove the duplicates. I am sure it was my
fault, of course.
(I am a little vague there, but I think older Redhats had some other tool for
getting updates and that one was a bit more robust)
Either way, I prefer to just never run yum/blahm/whatever after a get a usable
system, if I can help it.
Fedora makes this decision (not to run automatic update tools) pretty easy: the
updates are available for a lot shorter time than the lifetime of my system, so
by the time I may want to update something it's not there anyway.
Also, in my experience the only way to get a usable system has always been to
install everything. Otherwise I'd be scrambling to get installed something
obvious like lynx or tcpdump or pop3 or gcc or libraries or kernel headers all
the time. This would always happen at the most inconvenient time when my mind
would be miles away from remembering yum or rpm syntax and pitfalls.
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Anton Solovyev
