http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=955066 Bug ID: 955066 Summary: Need option to Install only -lang recommended packages and not other recommends Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 42.1 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Translations Assignee: ke@suse.com Reporter: sb56637@gmail.com QA Contact: ke@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- I'm running into a major issue that makes it really hard for me to use openSUSE. I need to install an additional interface language on my system apart from English, and there is apparently a very good YAST module for this. However, it doesn't actually install the relevant `-lang` packages because it depends on the zypper package recommends, which I have disabled. I tried re-enabling it and re-enabling the language I want, but it only installs a few spellcheck dictionaries and Firefox language packs, but not the profusion of `-lang` packages that I need for each and every GUI app. Then I tried doing a `zypper install-new-recommends`, but I aborted because it wanted to install a whopping 715 new packages for a grand total on the disk of well over **1GB**!!! I don't really think that the package recommends system is the right tool for installing `-lang` packages for a given language. Or is there any workaround I can use or some hidden zypp(er) setting that will make it only heed `-lang` recommends and none of the others? Sorry for the generality of this bug report, but the whole language installation method in openSUSE seems to be fundamentally flawed. Thanks for any insight. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.