On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 11:50:46AM +0100, Dominique Leuenberger / DimStar wrote:
On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 19:05 -0600, Chan Ju Ping wrote:
I have the following mystery I would like to understand. When I run zypper dup this is the output I get:
" The following 5 applications are going to be REMOVED:
ImagePlugin-Color ImagePlugin-Decorate ImagePlugin-Enhance ImagePlugin- FxFilters ImagePlugin-Transform
No additional space will be used or freed after the operation. Nothing to do. "
I don't see any of these packages in the repositories, though a quick online search tells me they are digikam related. Anyone here who could inform me as to what may be going on?
It says 'applictions' - not packages... there is a subtle difference. In this case, the issue is that the meta data generated for the packages is not fully correct. With the info at hand, zypper knows 'I have this now installed, but per the info I receive, the new 'package' no longer has the 'reference to the application'. In fact, it's about 'plugins' here.
Using zypper, you can search for apps for example using: zypper se -t application
This is getting more an more interesting as 'users are interested in applications, not packages' - packages are a technicality.
Honestly I don't need it and several others too. Instead we're forced to download this meta data again and again and in particular when you're on the road this is more than annoying. Seife made a suggestion but the patch wasn't good enought. Instead to enhance it we're currently in the situation to get a quite missleading message presented while updating Tumbleweed. Please merge Seifes patch or help him to enhance it. Or drop this stuff which only is of use to Gnome users IIRC. Cheers, Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team + SUSE Labs SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany