On 03/09/2020 08.42, Benjamin Zeller wrote:
On 8/31/20 10:29 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 31/08/2020 21.10, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 8/31/20 4:45 AM, Benjamin Zeller wrote:
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I wouldn't make much of it.
The default situation is installing the virtualbox rpm from openSUSE and the additions. Goes fine for most people. If you don't want them, lock them. I do that with many packages, it is fine with me.
Years ago zypper and yast had a feature: if you removed a package, it stayed removed. The system remembered your manual action and respected it. But the feature was removed because it had issues, I don't remember which. Since then, you have to remove and lock. A bit of a nuisance, but not much.
AFAIK one of the issues was that people forgot they removed the package manually and filed bugs about packages not being installed anymore. But I was not around at the time when that feature was removed so there might have been more issues with that.
Might be, I have forgotten :-) If it was that, YaST could have added an information screen: "not installing such because you removed them manually in the past (or such date)" I remember it was said that the solution was complicated, and left for some other time... which did not come (or I'm confused). So the best compromise was removing the feature :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)