* Robert Webb via openSUSE Factory
On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:16:26 -0400, Patrick Shanahan
wrote: * Martin Wilck via openSUSE Factory
[04-19-24 05:38]: On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:16 +0200, Johannes Meixner wrote:
I understand that every experienced user obviously always does it but as ultimately experienced user with final wisdom I learned following recommendations makes life easier (except exceptions)
I don't think consensus will ever be reached on this subject. Greetings from a strict "solver.onlyRequires = true" fanboy.
Martin
PS: Just checked out of curiosity, "zypper inr --recommends" would only install 165 additional packages on my workstation, occupying ~300MiB. That's much less than what it used to be - perhaps only texlive users must disable recommends these days.
"zypper inr --recommends" gets me:
The following 10 NEW patterns are going to be installed: documentation 20200505-48.2 fonts 20170319-12.1 fonts_opt 20170319-12.1 kde_yast 20240311-2.1 multimedia 20201106-3.7 sw_management 20200505-48.2 x11_enhanced 20200505-48.2 x11_yast 20220411-1.6 yast2_basis 20220411-1.6 yast2_desktop 20220411-1.6 1155 new packages to install. Overall download size: 955.2 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 3.1 GiB will be used.
a significant amount.
'zypper inr --no-recommends' is more limited but will still get you the *-lang packages.
From zypper(8): "Called as zypper inr --no-recommends, it restricts the command to just look for packages supporting available hardware, languages or filesystems."
So what is the damage in that case? :-)
The following 12 NEW packages are going to be installed: accountsservice-lang gsettings-desktop-schemas-lang kcoreaddons-lang kf6-kcoreaddons-lang libKF5JobWidgets5-lang libKF5WidgetsAddons5-lang libKF6JobWidgets6-lang libKF6WidgetsAddons6-lang libvdpau_nouveau marble-lang openSUSE-repos-MicroOS-NVIDIA openSUSE-repos-Slowroll-NVIDIA 12 new packages to install. Overall download size: 31.0 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 60.4 MiB will be used. but I run Tumbleweed and speak/read English, so what need do I have for any Slowroll pgm or any of the cited lang packages? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc