> Err, yes. Except the first half of your request is already done. You *can* > install from a 5MB cd over the network. (Altough it's nicer to have an ~80mb > one which has the full GUI installer, because it's annoying to pull that > over the net every time.) > > But what it doesn't do is look for updates and use newer packages if > available, like yum does. > So in order to get there we need a number of things to happen in anaconda: 1. multiple repository support 2. a way to set up multiple repositories, sanely, in the gui 3. a nice way to handle conflicts and what not from the interface - seeing as anaconda has, historically, dealt with consistent repositories with complete dependency closure. B/c you know the moment there is multiple repo support people will not just do base+updates but base +extras+updates+joesrepoofdoom -sv
