Every time I do a fresh installation of Fedora Linux, I stop for a second to consider the packages that I need to install. 9 times out of 10, I say “eh, what the heck!” and do a full install. Disk space is cheap these days after all.
But every time I run “yum update” after a long period of time, I think “why did I do a full install?”. While bandwidth is also cheap these days, we are still lacking speed-of-light experiences in network department.
4 responses so far ↓
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Vladimir Ivaschenko
// Jun 3, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Wait until we install another DS3…
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Alexander Mamchenkov
// Jun 4, 2006 at 9:14 am
Usually I do the full install because I do not like the GUI for selecting packages during installation, and then I do
yum removeon some pacages which I do not want. This also shows me what other packages will be removed for dependencies, so I do not remove something I need along the way.3
Sergey
// Jun 4, 2006 at 2:06 pm
yum update is not THAT bad. imagine what I though I did “emerge -u world” with KDE installed
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Leonid Mamchenkov
// Jun 5, 2006 at 12:15 am
Vlad,
The problem might be in the mirrors, not our connection.
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