On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 18:28:55 -0400, Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > One highly underdocumented feature of the installer is that within > each major chunk of packages (the column on the left side of the screen), > you can select all the sub-chunks over on the right side, then right > click the mouse and pick "select all optional package" > > So you can get "everything" with only a moderate number of mouse clicks > (I haven't discovered any way to do it with the keyboard, which is a > pain in the patoot in a Xen virtual machine install with the flakey > mouse tracking). This gets to be a pain if you want all of the languages installed on a box. > If "select all optional packages" is a valid thing to do, I have no > idea why there isn't a button labeled "OK, pretend I went through everything > manually and clicked on select all optional packages" :-). Even making the right click trick work one level higher up would be nice.
