On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > John Hodrien wrote: >> On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> I was puzzled to not that the former of the two is an rpm of zero bytes. >> >> Why puzzled? I'm guessing it's just an empty RPM with a load of >> dependencies as a way of cleaning up the dependency chain. > > Ok, I didn't rpm -ql to see what was in it, but as it listed as empty... > and why wouldn't the driver rpm have the dependencies in it? The driver rpm depends on all the specific driver RPMs. The 0 byte figure is because the driver RPM contains no files. But it means your kickstart (and the default install groups) can have xorg-x11-drv and doesn't need to be updated everytime they add a new driver (which'd be pretty annoying). jh