Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (83 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>]

Am Mittwoch 04 Juni 2008 schrieb Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett:
> Matt Barringer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is it possible to have the satsolver ignore a specific required
> > dependency?  For instance, one of our users wants to use the Gnome
> > pattern, but doesn't want ggreeter to be installed.  Banning it causes
> > the entire pattern to not be installed, but I can't see a way to skip the
> > requirement and continue with the resolution
>
> You could try to mark the required package as removal, so it generates a
> conflict and select the solution "ignore some dependencies if package X"
>
> Of course, if something required is ignored you are getting into hairy
> terrain. If ggreeter is not required, the pattern should _recommend_ it.

An openSUSE GNOME is only complete with ggreeter. So if someone wants to
create another product, he needs to have another pattern.

Greetings, Stephan

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