On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > > What causes it is that they do not require the SRPM to stand alone and > do the installs on an automated, single setup, single minimum buildroot > system. > > Why? No idea. We all stand on the shoulders of the OSS giants who write the code which we run. YOMV, but to this poster it appears that RH has helped itself to a ladder to put atop the shoulders of the giants. legal at redhat.com should order their troops to stop short shipping the SRPMS and make the SRPMS stand alone without sniggles (Lamar's choice of a descriptive term). regards/ldv/vaden at texoma.net