On Sunday 21 November 2010, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 13:19:05 +0100
Martin Schlander
wrote: Most people think 1-click is some form of black magic - they don't understand it's just rpms and repositories, exactly like a manual install - only a bit easier.
No. The last few times I tried 1-click installs I always got loads of packages installed that had nothing to do with the stuff that should have been installed with the one-click thing. And I had no way to stop it from doing that, no "summary screen" that asked me if I wanted to install all that crap or anything.
I haven't seen that. The only unwanted packages I've gotten installed are debuginfo/debugsource packages, which zypper seems to install for all packages whenever I install anything from non-standard repos. YaST doesn't, as far as I can tell, only zypper There is a summary screen though, or do you just click "next" through all screens without looking at them. You get to a screen where you can modify your selection, and if you do you get to the normal YaST package manager where you can deselect anything to your heart's content
Anyway, it *is* scary black magic, and people should avoid it like the plague if they don't want random crap installed on their machine.
dict:random If the packages you get installed are mentioned in config files you have installed, it's not random. But perhaps there should be a way of saying "no recommended packages" in the 1-click as well. And if the packages recommended by the packagers aren't good or useful, complain to the people writing the spec files. Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org