Bug ID 953013
Summary Unable (or at least wasn't shown) to do "just" remove a package with zypper
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Distribution
Version 13.2
Hardware Other
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component libzypp
Assignee zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter trifanstanislav@gmail.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
Found By ---
Blocker ---

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/46.0.2490.71 Safari/537.36
Build Identifier: 

I try to remove firefox package. But zypper try to install another one, but I
don't want it, and there is no option for skipping new install.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$> sudo zypper remove firefox

Actual Results:  
root's password:
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'firefox' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
Resolving package dependencies...

The following NEW package is going to be installed:
  MozillaThunderbird 

The following application is going to be REMOVED:
  Firefox 

The following package is going to be REMOVED:
  MozillaFirefox 

1 new package to install, 1 to remove.
Overall download size: 33.1 MiB. Already cached: 0 B  After the operation, 5.9
MiB will be 
freed.
Continue? [y/n/p/? shows all options] (y): 


Expected Results:  
Add in the line: `Continue? [y/n/p/? shows all options] (y):` an option for
remove only. It may be used `ro` option for remove only, and there should be
information what it means.

This actually is an usability bug. You may found tricks over the web that
people do for that. That's totally not good and makes SUSE to loose points in
usability versus other OSes.

BTW: is not meaningful to use `p` for restart whatever it is. It make sense to
put option with 2 or 3 chars that will make action intuitive to remember and
use.


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