Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 05:04:44AM +0100, Alex wrote:
> 1. When doing a factory update, zypper always insists on updating a few 
> packages which definitely are already installed in the newest version. E.g. 
> for bash or perl-base (and quite a few other packages), zypper with every 
> update reproducably installs the same version of this packages over and over 
> again.

This sounds like a bug to me. AFAIK schubi is already working on it.

> 2. Dependancies: Are there plans when a less greedy solver stragegy will be 
> implemented? Right now, everything which is "recommended" will be installed, 
> or pulled in when doing an update.

That's actually the definition of "recommended", the solver should
select it automatically. What's missing is that it is recorded
somewhere that the user deselected the package afterwards. Plus,
many packages that are marked as recommended should maybe be
suggested instead, i.e. not automatically selected but displayed
on an extra page. The trouble is, that extra page doesn't exist in
YaST at the moment.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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Michael Schroeder                                   mls@xxxxxxx
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