On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Nitebirdz spewed into the bitstream:
N>On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Michael R. Jinks wrote:
N>
N>>
N>> Choosing the "everything" install option is impractical for many users.
N>> Most new machines these days will come with plenty of disk, but if
N>> you're not on a new machine, or if you're concerned about building a
N>> secure box, you won't want to install any more packages than you
N>> actually need.
N>>
N>
N><snip>
N>
N>Michael is absolutetly right here. I'd also add one more thing. By
N>installing everything you expose yourself to a lot of security hazards.
N>It definitely is calling for trouble, and makes the administration of
N>the system perhaps more difficult at least as ar as the upgrades of
N>packages to close security holes is concerned.
There is an opposing point of view to this but it requires that you know
what you're doing... I always do "everything" installs as it stops
dependency hassles dead in their tracks... but... at least lately I seem
to know what I'm doing. :-)
BTW... the procedure entails immediately turning off everything I do not
need and removing certain things that I know I will never need as well
as replacing certain things I don't need with other things that work
better. (How's that for a mouthful? :-)
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