Feature changed by: Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) Feature #321192, revision 5 Title: Make simpler to update package stack like KDE/Plasma (or any DEs) stack, php stack - openSUSE Distribution: New + openSUSE Distribution: Rejected by Tomáš Chvátal (scarabeus_iv) + reject reason: We really do not plan to have partial updates. It is + pain in the long term management of the system. Simply put user should + be able to update to latest of everything he has in repositories and + stick to them. + You can even now disable recommends or specify to update only from one + selected additional repository using zypper if you really want to. Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sharique Ahmed Farooqui (safknw) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This is issue more relevant to tumbleweed and also for the users of factory/stable/current repo of specific stacks. I'm using tumbleweed. As a user KDE I want to have latest stable release of KDE and plasma, but I don't want to upgrade all other packages, so I didn't run `zypper up`, instead I open package manager and search for kde and plasma package and updated them. Unfortunately I forgot to update some important packaged and after completion of installation when I restarted X/KDE, it is broken, plasma shell is not appearing. So there should be a meta package, which I upgrade/update it should update/upgrade all installed package of that particular stack and it should not install any other package that is outside of dependencies of installed packages (ie. recommended packages). Pattens are there in OpenSuse, but they are useful only for installation package stack, but when I updated pattern, it only update pattern meta package, not all packages included in pattern. May be we can tweak patterns a bit to added updating whole stack. Use Case: As a user I should be able to update complete plasma/KDE stack by just updating a single meta package. As a user I should be able to update complete gnome desktop stack by just updating a single meta package. As a user I should be able to update complete PHP stack by just updating a single meta package. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/321192