On Tue, 2017-02-14 at 08:05 +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 8:22 PM, AW
wrote: There is a package texlive-dummy_install on software.opensuse.org. AFAIK you can install it and zypper no longer complains about missing texlive packages.
As well here: https://www.ctan.org/pkg/texlive-dummy-opensuse?lang=de
I wonder which is the better route: a lock or the dummy package that pretends to provide the packages.
A lock seems better to me if only because it is more clear that the packages are not actually installed.
To me this looks like a design problem in the texlive package. How much
sense does it make to split a package in to 1500+ parts if "texlive-
epstopdf" pulls in (almost?) all of them? You might as well just stuff
it all in a single package.
Btw, I set "solver.onlyRequires = true" in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf, and I
don't recall having had trouble with it.
Regards
Martin
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Dr. Martin Wilck