As far as I can tell, 'rpm -q -requires' yields a list of required files, not packages.   To satisfy dependencies, you need to find the packages that contain these required files.  The SuSE CDs have lists of packages, but no database that lets you find the the package that contains a particular file.  Or if it does, I couldn't find it.  Does YaST actually run 'rpm -q -provides' on every package to find dependencies?  This seems unlikely - otherwise you'd have to be constantly switching CDs whenever YaST does a dependency check, which is not the case.

Any information on this subject would be appreciated.  (Or if you know of any documentation on this subject, please let me know).

Thanks,

Barnet Wagman