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.