http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1029392 Bug ID: 1029392 Summary: Replace the terminology "uninstallable provider" with something understandable Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 42.2 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp Assignee: zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: sknorr@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- When there are package conflicts, Zypper and YaST often complain about "uninstallable providers". Even after five years of using SUSE-based distributions I have NO CLUE what this means. (What exactly is the "provider" here? And why exactly is it "uninstallable" -- I am trying to install something here?) Judging by e.g. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128110 , I am not the only one. Could this message be rephrased in an understandable way? [And please don't ask for proposal before paraphrasing what this means -- when I said I still had no clue, that is exactly what I meant.] Quoting the example message from StackExchange:

Problem: foo-tools requires foo-lib, but this requirement cannot be provided uninstallable providers: foo-lib.7.31.13.x86_64 Solution 1: do not install foo-tools Solution 2: break foo-tools by ignoring some of its dependencies

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