Fedora Core

[Scott Sullivan]

A quick check show that this invocation of yum would produce the 
requested result.

yum install "*-*"


I find it funny and Ironic that the command looks like it's staring at 
you like your might be crazy.


On 04/19/2011 01:04 PM, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> 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. :)
>> >
>> > --
>> > Howard Gibson
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