RE: Installing Packages with Proxy

[Seth Vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

> 
> Perhaps I am catching this thread late.  What is the advantage of having
> the full header over simply epoch, name, version, release tags (or
> whatever tags that the version comparison needs)? 
> 

you can calculate the full dependency/conflict/obsoletes w/o having the 
rpm.

additionally just n-e-v-r will not let you do archscoring or file-based 
dependencies

-sv