Some unpleasant experiences with yast/zypper today. on a perfectly fine 12.1, I did `zypper up chromium`, which resulted in upgrades of lots of things seemingly quite unrelated to chrome. One of them, which *might* be some strange requirement.... was udev. The install portion at udev crashed the machine, and made it unbootable as it could no longer find the root partition, prompting an early departure from work, hours spent backing up the machine, and an install of 12.3. After the basic install of 12.3, I used yast to download VLC, Virtualbox, pidgin and tree. This somehow required 1040 packages, including gnumeric, kde-wallpapers and gnucash-docs. Just to name a few really silly ones. No way in any sane universe those packages "needed" by VLC, Virtualbox, pidgin and tree. I can understand the billion libxyz's getting installed, and that the dependency management is a lovely slice of hell, but really, was all this necessary in any way? Is there at least some way to say "yes, go ahead and install these dependencies, but stop trying to install random unwanted software on my system?" Is there some strange default setting hiding in yast/zypper which thinks it should take any opportunity possible to install all the things *someone* thought I might want? Michael "13 years SuSE linux user and getting very frustrated with it" -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org