#1 need not be limited to anaconda. It could also be a super special
case that apt, yum and up2date handle because it is extremely rare but
important.
I'd like to offer that there is no such case that should justify a hack
as ugly as that would be.
if someone at red hat wants to apply a patch to the yum in fedora core
to make that happen I can't stop them, however I will NOT accept a patch
to do the above into upstream yum. That's gross.
-sv