Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@suse.de> writes:
Patches aren't installed. Actually if you update all packages, then none of the remaining patches should be relevant for your system, so they wont show as "needed".
A patch can trigger the installation of a pacakge that wasn't on your system before, can't it?
Patches are just a different view, where the grouping is by "problem" and not per package.
Sometimes the newest package is not good for everybody, and patches allow you to be selective on when to update a package and when not to update it. For example, when it comes to drivers, patches can allow you to select specific package versions for specific hardware versions, using the modalias, while the packages overclaim they were good for everything. Basically I think the package update is best for those repos that do not provide patches. So why did I ask wether they can be done both at the same time? To update all packages and to also get all additional changes that are triggered by the patches. However the most important thing to me is to tell in repos.d/*.conf wether to do package or patch updates per default on this or that repo, I have use cases for that. The other one (patches and packages in one run) to me is less important. S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business OPS Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure Nürnberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-softwaremgmt+help@opensuse.org