On Wed, Sep 18, Michael Fischer wrote:
Some unpleasant experiences with yast/zypper today.
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.
Oh, and all the texlive packages... I'm not so concerned about disk space, but what a waste of time and the implication that the system cannot be trusted to do what I asked it to do in a sensible fashion. UPDATE: seems this behavior is peculiar to yast. Doing CLI `zypper in pidgin` doesn't cause the crazy installs. Michael -- Michael Fischer michael@visv.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org