F7 repo contains the packages that its install dvd has not. Why?

[Todd Zullinger]

Strong wrote:
> I installed through yum a package. And it needed a dependancy,
> called libcaca. Yum found it to be on fedora repo. I use F7. I
> wanted to install it from my F7 install dvd. But i did not find such
> a package. So, my question is: Are not the fedora repo and its
> install dvd similar package sets?

The DVD is a subset of the Everything repo.  The total collection of
packages in Fedora is larger than would fit on a DVD.

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