up2date anomaly - 'hdr' vs 'rpm'

Price Technology pricetech at charter.net
Thu Aug 5 22:24:04 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 07:48, Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Price Technology kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika torstai, 5. 
> elokuuta 2004 05:17):
> > > Those are headers for RPMs that you have (a) already
> > > installed or (b) haven't downloaded yet.
> >
> > That makes sense, but with a new install of "everything" I
> > wouldn't think there would be many RPM's not needed,
> 
> Installing "everything" doesn't actually install every package in 
> the distribution! The effect is like checking every box in the 
> package selection screen, but there are plenty of packages not 
> mentioned there.
> 
Not  to start a young war or anything, but;

Seems I recall a message that shows up round about the "everything"
option that says something to the effect that everything includes more
than what's listed in the above menues.

Can anybody confirm or dispute that one for me ??

Joebewan





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