Fedora Core

[Scott Sullivan]

In earlier Fedora releases there was a package group to install Everything.

But when Fedora Core became just Fedora (around 6 if I recall), it 
subsumbed the "Extras" repository and all packages were treated first class.
Currently  there are *11826* packages in fedora. Among them you will get 
more then half a dozen of the same type of application (music, calendar, 
text editor, etc)... Over 12 Desktop environments to choose from + all 
the variants introduces by using different WMs with Gnome. Not to 
mention the 70+ games (not including duplicate and triplicate variations).

Plus all the language support for the many dozens of languages supported 
by Fedora.

You will also have to update every package you install, which in a 
single day can exceed a hundred package updates a day easily.

So as tempting as "Install Everything" sounds, you end up with a tangled 
mess that will be more headache then you think.

The solution I've taken too is to actually keep a list of the packages I 
care about, in a text file. I use in Kickstart files to automate the 
selection at install time. The other option is to feed it to Yum via 
xargs after install.


On 04/17/2011 08:54 PM, aaron d wrote:
>
> Even though I don't use fedora _anything_, I'm going to say no. #1 
> reason is that many packages can conflict with others. This would lead 
> to circular dependency issues. Is it really that tough to install 
> software on-demand? Last I checked the distro is already pretty 
> bloated as it is.
>
> Aaron
>
> On Apr 17, 2011 7:49 PM, "Howard Gibson" <hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org 
> <mailto:hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org>> wrote:
> > I have just installed Fedora Core_14 on a new laptop.
> >
> > Is there any way top launch the package manager, and tell Yum to 
> install everything? I am tired of clicking on each and every package 
> that I want. I have a 500GB drive on this thing. I don't care about 
> space, yet. :)
> >
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