OK I think the discussion is running out of hand and not what I meant in the first place.

As far as I understand within the discussions, there was no or little common sense in placing the rpm's on the CDs. Please forgive me if I'm wrong, all FC guys did a tremendous job.

Can anyone JUST tell me how a "rpm -i some.rpm" knows that package someother.rpm is needed.  I have tried before with --requires but that didn't do the trick. I might come up with a little script which tells the hierarchie on relationships, which can be used to differentiate the packages on the CDs in a more structured way, which might be of help for future FC distributions. These of course should only be handled for extras.

2006/5/4, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@laposte.net>:
Le jeudi 04 mai 2006 à 10:50 +0200, Peter Bieshaar a écrit :
> I agree this is inconvenient for me ;) That's why I tried to suggest a
> solution for my inconvenience. All I suggested is to have dependent
> packages on the same disk, which I think could be done.

Technical package inter dependencies are quite complex, and social
dependencies (people use foo with bar even if they are technically
distinct) are worse.

I think if you actually try to do what you suggest you'll hit a wall
pretty soon. Or buy a dvd reader.

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