Maybe this just makes to much sense to work but it would help if you could get a file (called distrodep.%version%.%arch%.tar.gz maybe?) that gives a human readable list of what each rpm needs/conflicts with/provides and what cd this rpm is on ie

RPM        |needs           | conflicts with |provides |is on
--------------------------------------------------------------
foo          base system       bar             foo       install #1
Gfoo         foo / Gnome                       XfooGui   install #2
Kfoo         foo / KDE                         XfooGui   install #2

And yes if you have a running system you can use RPM tools but this could also be used with contribs and other alternate sources even if the
system grabbing the file is not the target system (or even a LINUX system)
Climbing the dep tree is not fun if you don't have highspeed





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