Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:24:42 Larry Stotler wrote:

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> Fortunately, Linux is nowhere near that bad, but openSUSE still
> installs a lot of what I fell are unnecessary programs like Beagle,
> OpenOffice(KOffice is much better and uses less resources if you use
> KDE), AppArmour, etc.  I realize that the devs want to make the
> install easier and that they choose a specific set of apps to install,
> but, from my experience, 90% of the people never even use a Desktop
> search program, so it's just a waste.  Also, YaST can make it a pain
> to uninstall stuff.  Try removing OpenOffice, AppAromour or Beagle in
> 11.0, and you'll get dependency complaints.  If the main module of a
> program is selected for removal, all parts of it should be removed
> unless they have a dependency elsewhere(which they shouldn't).  I
> haven't tried it in 11.1 yet.

That's dependency problem of packages, not libzypp (and thus not YaST).

Stano

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