Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (78 mails)

[Jan Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

Jan Kupec schrieb:
> > For example:
> > i want to install 'glest': glest needs glest-data so both get installed.
> > Then i get bored with glest and want to remove it, but currently using
> > 'zypper remove glest' will remove only 'glest', glest-data stays
> > needlessly installed.
> >
> > What i want to achieve is something like:
> > $ zypper remove --auto-remove-whathever glest
> > ....
> > The following packages are going to be REMOVED:
> >   glest-data glest
> >
> > (maybe with an additional section in the summary like this:
> > The following package is unused and will be removed:
> >   glest-data
> > )
Hi Jano,
now it is clear, but I must disappoint you. As I have already written in
fate:

"The solver needs the additional information WHY a package has been
installed. (User decision, Requirement of other packages,
Recommends,....). This information is not available at the moment. With
this information it would be possible."

There is no change to solve it, cause the solver does not have this
information.

> > It is perfectly reasonable to be able to do this, i just wanted to ask
> > if there already is support for this in the current solver, or it needs
> > to be implemented.

It is mainly not a solver problem but an information problem concerning
who, when and why a package has been selected for installation. This
information will not be stored at the moment.

Greetings
Stefan

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