On 2025-03-20 09:43, Stakanov via openSUSE Users wrote:
In data mercoledì 19 marzo 2025 16:21:43 Ora standard dell’Europa centrale, tabris@tabris.net ha scritto:
On Mar 19, 2025, at 7:11 AM, Masaru Nomiya <nomiya@lake.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
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Also the original post suggested he had already blacklisted them, but he didn't want to do so going forward. He wanted to find the cause of the ostensibly extraneous dependencies, and blacklist the culprits. You are perfectly right, I did use actually yast before posting to take of all texlive related. Currently when I do an update with zypper dup and blacklisting packages with "texlive", there are now staggering 9097 objects blocked. Do we have really now 9097 texlive packages now? Wow. I mean, if you have glassfiber, but a real one, that delivers also real high speed, then this is not a big issue if your root disk is large enough (at latest when you have to bring in debug packages for texlive packages it will have to be very large then).
I have Texlive installed. I do not use Tex directly, but sometimes I use LyX which is related to Tex and can use it. I forget how long the recent upgrade of Leap 15.5 to 15.6 took. I know that I stopped 15.5 at 2025-02-13T09:18:16 and booted 15.6 at 2025-02-13T22:58:49
I wonder why all these are "recomands" at once when installing texlive. Would make more sense for me if they would be divided in modules by special functions/capacities. But I will observe this mystic number to see if it goes up.
In the now distant past Tex was mostly a single package. Then they decided that some people might want to install a part of Tex only, not all of it, so it was divided into multiple packages, to allow fine grained choice. But 9000 packages is a bit too far, methinks. There maybe a main package there that you can block and effectively blocks the rest. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.6 x86_64 at Telcontar)