http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992665 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992665#c4 Lars Vogdt <lars.vogdt@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CONFIRMED CC| |lars.vogdt@suse.com Assignee|lars.vogdt@suse.com |i@marguerite.su --- Comment #4 from Lars Vogdt <lars.vogdt@suse.com> --- This special behavior of the Education repository exists since openSUSE 10.2 (sic: 10 years now!) - so your discussion starts a bit late in the game... ;-) The reason for this decision was: if people install the current openSUSE distribution and add the Education repository, they should be able to install all (or at least most) of the packages without any ("unresolvable") problem. As there were some packages that heavily depend on a couple of packages from the other repositories, our decision in the past was to: a) don't waste build power by rebuilding all the dependencies b) don't waste too much time trying to get all the needed dependencies "copied" to the Education repo c) make it easier for our end-users to get everything we think is ok Might be that time has come that we should evaluate if these arguments are still true. But - to be honest - I don't want to be the guy who tries to evaluate all the packages and their dependencies in the Education repository by hand. So any help is really welcome. Marguerite: as you volunteered already and are maintainer in the Education repository, I hope it's ok for you to take over and "fix" this bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.