Description of problem: I'm doing standard installs of Fedora from the DVD media. Could we add some way to skip or reduce the time of the dependency check routine if default install options are selected and the install is being performed from install media with a correct MD5 of SHA1? In other words if I do an install from a FC6 or FC7T2 DVD and check the boxes for "Office & Productivity" and "Software Development" and make NO other changes to the underlying selections it takes exactly 4 minutes and 14 seconds to determine that the dependencies are met. That seems like a long time to sit and stare at the screen when the installer could know that the check does not need to be performed. It seems to me that for installs from a fixed source like a DVD, the dependency checks should be run when the ISOs are built or once during testing... not every time you do a default install. This is also a performance hit for automated testing scenarios where default install options are selected for a distribution that must first be installed before the tests are performed.
And what do you do about languages? As they can and do change the package set. Or different kernels... they could have different deps too. This is entirely the wrong answer. If dep checking is slow, then we should work on making it faster as we can, not paper over the problem with nonsense like this. Luckily, there's some work under way to do so. But not going to fix this explicitly
Okay... then how about making this a tracker bug for making dep checking faster?
Because that exists as a separate bug and is being tracked upstream in yum. This isn't something that we're just going to fix for anaconda.