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How does the install program decide in what order to install the
rpms included a distro? Is it coded in or something, but RHL's
anaconda does not have anything suggesting that. What I'd like to
know is how the install program handles the dependencies because in
case of the graphical and text based installations, the order of
packages installed is different. While the graphical install seems to
go about in a haphazard manner, the text based one goes about
alphabetically after installing the libraries.
Assuming that the program does a rpm -Uvh install on each package
is not promising. Or is each package installed the gnorpm way, ie, it
checks the dependencies for each package, then first satisfies the
dependencies, and then installs the package. While the latter course
seems logical, I can't explain it from the way the packages are
installed alphabeticlly in the text install. So what goes on under
the hood?
-Rgds
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