El 18/09/13 20:13, Michael Fischer escribió:
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,
It does not require 1040 packages, there may be recommended packages that trigger installation of a lot of dependencies.
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?"
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