Hey, >> Hmm, I always went through the whole list before (during) >> installation...
> i dont think you could view all available rpm packages during installation > as many are intentionally hidden by the distro packagers to prevent > overwhelming the new users who are trying mandrake for the first time. the > list of applications that you could see during installation is the same one > that you can see during a rpmdrake session. you have to select the flat view > to get a complete listing. an example here (if i recall correctly) would be > the libwine1 packages. you would never see the libwine1 packages during > installation. i chose that as an example because i just upgraded one computer > here to LM8.2 and was able to add the libwine1 package when all was running > smoothly after installation. > i recall this topic was also brought up by civileme a couple months back > during the release of 8.1. i may be wrong so take my word with a grain of > salt. ;-) You might be right, I had the same problem with kernel-sources, which I could never find in rpmdrake. Still, you can choose between a categorized and a flat view of packages during installation, can't you? Bye Roman
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