Comment # 4 on bug 992665 from Lars Vogdt

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.