https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235498 Summary: Software Management does not handle patterns properly Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: RC 5 Platform: x86 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Joseph.Comfort@asu.edu QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Once SuSE 10.2 is installed (which must be done through the patterns system), I want to customize my software, but the Software Management app unnecessarily prevents some actions. In some cases, it will not allow me to delete a rpm package due to a dependency in a pattern -- even if there is in fact no functional dependency in the software. If I then delete the pattern, most of the other rpms are kept but sometimes additional rpms will be deleted. Worse: it will not tell me in advance that it will do so! It will tell me the things it wants to add, but not the ones it chose to remove, without my consent. An example. I don't need EVMS on my system. But it is part of the Base pattern. OK, I chose the option to delete Base. The good thing is that most of the Base rpms are kept. But some others are deleted without telling me. It is tedious and very time consuming to go through the whole list of rpms again and find the ones that got deleted and which I still need (yast2-control-center was one such rpm, as I found out later). There are no problems if those rpms are reinstalled because the dependency was to the pattern and not to other rpms. Another example is the Games pattern, where some of the games in it I don't want. Variations of this problem have been noted in several bug reports. A recent one was for autoyast in bug 232434 and bug 231687. An update has been distributed for autoyast, but that does not fix Software Management. There are also bug 228815, bug 223675, and bug 227379 among others. The idea of patterns has some usefullness, but the implementation is just too rigid and leads to very unnecessary problems and lost time. This report can be marked as a duplicate of others, provided that any resolution of the others also fixes Software Management. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.