On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 06:59:18PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the release notes suggest that the *additional* space needed for an > install is anywhere from 90M to 175M for an "everything" install. > there is no way all of the RPMs for an everything install are going to > fit in 175M. so, once again, what is that additional hard drive space > being used for. precisely. It doesn't download all the rpms, then install, it installs while downloading, after the install it removes the rpm. This is why it first has to figure out dependancies, once it has all the dependancies figured out, it can create a ordered list of packages to install. -miah
