On 2025-03-09 18:01, Poplar.at.twilight wrote:
Hi!
I'm Poplar, a Tumbleweed user.
I suggested that zypper should stop automatically installing recommended packages when it detects that a specific package is already installed.
When I updated my system, zypper automatically added chromium to the list of software to be installed in one of the updates. However, I had already installed google-chrome from google's repositories. zypper keeps trying to install the recommended alternative package for the user when it doesn't detect the browser rpm package from the official openSUSE repositories.
In order to prevent zypper from installing chromium as a replacement for firefox (which I uninstalled), I had to use the zypper al command to lock several packages in a row to stop zypper from recommending alternatives once and for all.
The locked packages were: w3m, seamonkey, lynx, links, libdisplay-info-tools, firefox-esr, falkon and elinks.
I don't think it's a reasonable action for zypper to continue to push alternative recommended packages to users when a specific package (such as chrome) is already installed via zypper just because it's not in the openSUSE repositories and the official list of recommended packages.
The normal thing to do is to install firefox, and then chrome. If you do not want to install firefox because it is big, then install any of the text alternatives: w3m, lynx, links... They are tiny. Your way you will also have problems when clicking a link on email, the system will not be able to open any browser. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.6 x86_64 at Telcontar)