To solve a class a problems in a project I'm working on, I'm using kickstart files which explicitly list each package which should be installed on the new system. This works, but can make anaconda horribly slow. Using cProfile, it appears that we're calling buildPkgRefDict for each explicitly listed package -- at a cost of nearly a half-second per call (3GigHz P4). Clearly this gets to be rather expensive when the package list is long -- a typical install is over 600 packages. We're burning an absurd amount of time here. Using @group syntax does not suffer from this problem. So clearly there's a path through anaconda which does not need to call buildPkgRefDict so often. Any thoughts/suggestions/comments on how to do something about this? Jeff
