On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 8:44 PM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2017-07-02 17:15, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sun, 2 Jul 2017 09:29:07 -0400 Patrick Shanahan wrote:
rpm -qa *texlive* |wc -l 14
Hi Patrick,
Your point is well taken, but I don't consider you to be an 'average user' :) I've had two 42.2 installations in a row result in what appear to be unintentionally complete sets of texlive packages being installed, and, some of those odd package names tended to thwart my usual (albeit probably sloppy / rusty) cli mitigation efforts, hence my brief rant. :) I'm on to other issues now but I appreciate your feedback!
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa texlive* | wc -l 1727 cer@Telcontar:~>
Yes, this is a known issue. If something wants or recommends texlive as a dependency, you get an awful lot of packages. And yes, they are intentionally that many so that you can choose exactly which of them you choose - as if anybody can select manually only 500 of them out of the list!
The problem is that whatever is requesting them does not limit it's appetite to the ones it needs. Or, if it does, the dependencies wind up pulling all the packages anyway. Making the whole point of making them in to a zillion packages rather moot. It seems that once you get a few, the rest seem always to want to tag along. I have hat to actively block them. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org