On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:16:26 -0400, Patrick Shanahan
* Martin Wilck via openSUSE Factory
[04-19-24 05:38]: On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:16 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
I understand that every experienced user obviously always does it but as ultimately experienced user with final wisdom I learned following recommendations makes life easier (except exceptions)
I don't think consensus will ever be reached on this subject. Greetings from a strict "solver.onlyRequires = true" fanboy.
Martin
PS: Just checked out of curiosity, "zypper inr --recommends" would only install 165 additional packages on my workstation, occupying ~300MiB. That's much less than what it used to be - perhaps only texlive users must disable recommends these days.
"zypper inr --recommends" gets me:
The following 10 NEW patterns are going to be installed: documentation 20200505-48.2 fonts 20170319-12.1 fonts_opt 20170319-12.1 kde_yast 20240311-2.1 multimedia 20201106-3.7 sw_management 20200505-48.2 x11_enhanced 20200505-48.2 x11_yast 20220411-1.6 yast2_basis 20220411-1.6 yast2_desktop 20220411-1.6 1155 new packages to install. Overall download size: 955.2 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 3.1 GiB will be used.
a significant amount.
'zypper inr --no-recommends' is more limited but will still get you the *-lang packages. From zypper(8): "Called as zypper inr --no-recommends, it restricts the command to just look for packages supporting available hardware, languages or filesystems." So what is the damage in that case? :-) -- Robert Webb