Rpm-list Digest, Vol 75, Issue 2

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 08:41 -0400, rarob at travelinglightfarm.net wrote:

> I'm somewhat curious however, in that neither rpmorphan or the yum command
> included things like 'kernel' as a required package.  I would have thought
> that this would have been required *somewhere*.  Or do the rpm dependency
> lists make certain assumptions that the system you are installing on has a
> certain minimal set of RPMs already installed?
> 


kernels aren't required- you don't need one, for example, for a
xen-instance of a system or if you're installing into a chroot.

-sv