Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (723 mails)

[Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> Martin Schlander <suse@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > 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...

I agree to delay the discussion. But we should also discuss for SLES 10. 

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