Hi Dave,

On 07/25/2018 05:31 PM, Dave Howorth wrote:
> But it's not the optional update I'm talking about; I turned that > down. It's the updates (actually completely new installs) in the > security update.
The Chromium update requires libraries that were previously not available. These libraries were also introduced as part of the optional update. So Chromium will pull in the new packages it needs. The remaining parts of the optional update will remain untouched until you choose to install them.

> My libav* comes from packman; this update wants to install new libav* > files from opensuse. Surely that is going to bork my system? No, these are new libraries with separate and different names that can be installed in parallel.

> There are no corresponding files on packman, AFAIK.
The will get around to that.

Andreas

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