> #1 need not be limited to anaconda. It could also be a super special > case that apt, yum and up2date handle because it is extremely rare but > important. I'd like to offer that there is no such case that should justify a hack as ugly as that would be. if someone at red hat wants to apply a patch to the yum in fedora core to make that happen I can't stop them, however I will NOT accept a patch to do the above into upstream yum. That's gross. -sv