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65 >Chapter 24. CDL Concepts</TD
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85 NAME="CDL-PACKAGES">Packages</H1
87 >The building blocks of an <SPAN
90 > configuration are called
97 >. Packages are the units of
98 software distribution. A set of core packages (such as
99 kernel, C library and math library) is provided by Red Hat:
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103 >A package may exist in one of a number of <SPAN
110 The default version is the <SPAN
117 Only one version of a given package may be present in the component
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121 is either at the top-level or is the child of another package.</P
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