Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (723 mails)

[Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 09:48, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > I just tried to install as many packages as possible and found something
> > very annoying: Conflicts are only shown one at a time. You can not solve
> > several conflicts at a time like before.
> >
> > Should I file a bug or is this intended behaviour?
>
> Please file a bug,
>
> Andreas

I have a similar question. 

I chose to install xmms with yast sw (beta8) - apparently xmms depends on 
xmms-lib which is also installed. This is all very nice - except in earlier 
versions of SL you would be informed of dependencies before they're installed 
- enabling you to change your mind - or at least know what's going on before 
it's too late. 

Is this behaviour a bug or is it intended? - that dependencies are installed 
automatically without "consulting" the user beforehand. 

I prefer the old way. Though I'm aware that some users panic when yast asks 
them any questions whatsoever.

Of course in the xmms case it's not important - but if I (or some other user) 
were to by accident install some GNOME-package and thus installaing 100s of 
megs of dependencies without warning it would be a problem.

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