Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Alex <one_way@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx> schrieb am 03.03.2008:
> > 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. 

Yes, that would be a solution. Simply a switch that says "only update 
recommended packages if they are installed. If they are not installed, simply 
don't bother yourself and the user with them." 

The definition what is to be recommended for what kind of users is varying, I 
guess. I don't like getting recommandations getting forced onto me 
(note: ;) ), as this somehow blurs the distinction between "requirements" 
and "recommandations" in package management. 
In many cases I wonder why stuff is being divided up into different packages, 
only than to depend on/recommend each other...

> 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.

That IMHO would be the optimum solution. I'd vote for that.

However, if I see the speed jump with the latest version of zypper, I'm pretty 
optimistic that something simple like that will make its way into zypper, 
too.
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