Comment # 8 on bug 1162143 from Stefan Hundhammer

Well, if you don't make any changes, of course no action is performed. This is
no different no matter if there is a retracted version or not, as I outlined in
comment #5 and comment #6.

The only thing that is special in the case of retracted versions is that a
retracted version will never become a candidate (i.e. suggested / preselected
by libzypp and libsolv), so there might be a newer version (the retracted one)
that is not automatically preselected as the candidate version in the
"Versions" tab.

If you explicitly select that retracted version, the package is (as usual)
automatically selected to be upgraded to that version.


What else would you as a user expect? That it automatically sets all packages
to "upgrade" if there is a newer version available, even if your intention was
only to install one more package? The YaST package selector only does that if
it is started in "Online Update" mode (that's, and then it operates on the
patches level, not on individual packages.

Bulk operations are available in the package selector, but only via the "All in
this list" operations in the menus (from the "Package" menu or the context menu
in the packages list). That is the YaST equivalent of "zypper up".

"zypper in newpkg" will also not perform all pending package updates just
because you happen to install one more package. And "Synaptics" on Ubuntu
behaves in the exact same way, and also "apt install newpkg".