On 23/02/2019 21.57, David C. Rankin wrote:
Guys,
This was a bit surprising. last night a simply zypper up on 4.23 and 15.0 brought in new packages 'brltty' and 'qemu' requiring ~120M of storage for packages that will not even work on my system and slowed desktop startup and responsiveness to a crawl on Virtualbox installs.
Why is the braille driver and qemu being pulled in as recommends on a simple zypper up?
In order to restore desktop startup speed and fix the virtualbox installs I had to specifically get rid of the unneeded packages with
# zypper rm --clean-deps brltty qemu
There are probably less than 0.01% of users with hardware capable of braille interpretation. What package is responsible for this, or how can I figure it out?
This seems like a complete unintended consequence to some packaging change. There is no reason we should no have to run:
# zypper up --no-recommends
Don't. Instead taboo qemu and brltty
just to prevent unwanted software from being installed on update.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.0 x86_64 at Telcontar)