On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 09:31:00AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@niemeyer.net> writes:
[...] We cannot just install them, because otherwise it becomes a true requires. Asking the user to confirm is a bit tricky, since we may get into "suggests of suggests" and become boring. So we should try to understand what is a good way of handling them.
We could install them - this gives the chance to install a package if it is available on the media and not fail if not... But perhaps this is not the intended behaviour ;-)
My idea about this is that there should be a switch in YaST "Automatically install packages that are suggested by other packages". This allows the users that just want to have a useful system to get all these packages without looking up hundreds of thousands of things and it allows the users that want to save every byte that is not really required on their disk to turn all suggests globally off. I recommend to have this switch turned on by default because most users are most likely served best if they have too much software installed than when something is missing. Another switch might be useful that selects whether YaST should display a dependency resolver question when the issue is only caused by honouring the suggests feature. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de