Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (723 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> 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. 

It will stay this way for 10.1.

> 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.

I'd like to discuss this and similar issues once we have 10.1 out, so
that we can plan on what to do for 10.2...

Andreas
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