Re: Purging unneeded packages and dependencies:

On 05-20-2024 08:11PM, Simon Lees wrote:

On 5/21/24 1:41 AM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:

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On 05-20-2024 09:54AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

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On 20.05.2024 16:45, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:

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On 05-20-2024 01:37AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

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On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 8:43 AM -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:

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Hi, I am wondering about how I should best go about purging packages and possibly dependencies along with what is displayed after passing 'zypper pa --unneeded'.

Why? What problem are you trying to solve?

I would like to remove packages that are bloating the machine. So that I can keep the machines package structure well organized.

Whack a mole ... then it is arguably makes more sense to start with --no-recommends and only add what you need.

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... Why is "--no-recommends" not the default behavior then?

In the modern age of both cheap storage and memory, the feedback we <

You call the shots; (When can I talk about openSUSE)? as

openSUSE tend to get is that most users who install Tumbleweed and or Leap want something that just works for them out of the box and would rather for example to have 12 various desktop apps

I never figure when *apps* are called out it, sounds like a cellular phone; not anything that SUSE can be a part of? The app thing is just dull!. Zypper and Novell is what pulls SUSE. So hey, I guess for me I am a user of a machine that I thought was within a corporation yet it's starving for support. Almost like truth . installed out of the

box even if they'll probably only use 5 of them to save themselves having to go through and install a bunch of software that they'd like post install.

Are they 'WADMINS' *or* 'Admins' and why make it so tough for 'wadmins' to get answers ? *I think* It's because you decide what calls the shots. That's why I wanted at the start to run > PURE SUSE and have the support. Maybe I am not good enough huhg.

In contrast these days we now have MicroOS which aims to install as minimal host os as possible and one of the ways it does that is using "--no-recommends" as the default behavior.

'Looking' is deeper for me, and I do thank you for explanation and responding to this message. I'll see what happens. -Greatest Hopes