On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Rajesh Fowkar wrote:
> >but how does rh installation finds out dependency packages and installs
> >every thing even when I select one package (again e.g. kde)
>
> That might be hard coded in the installation program by Rethat. May be :-)
most likely the cd has a rpm database file for a complete installation,
and anaconda just queries that with python's rpm extension. I am hazarding
this guess based on a vague memory that there was an option of storing
such a database , or was it an rpm file itself which created the complete
rpmdb ....cant recollect.
sreangsu
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