installer hdlist

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:01:05PM +0100, graham boyd wrote:
> @base expands to two groups, @core and @dialup, and from those two I get 
> a list of RPMs. Here's the thing, that list of RPMs has dependancies 
> that aren't listed in comps.xml. comps.xml doesn't list 'grep' for example.

Right -- any requirements get pulled in at runtime.

> Doesn't hdlist list the dependancies for every package so that the 
> installer doesn't have to go through every individual RPM itself to get 
> this information?

Yeah, but it doesn't contain information on what's in what package group.

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