On 2017-07-31 01:55, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Dave Howorth <dave@howorth.org.uk> [07-30-17 19:19]:
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 14:43:40 -0700 John Andersen <jsamyth@gmail.com> wrote:
On 07/30/2017 09:25 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:
But in this case I believe that YaST's behaviour could be improved (flag that the auto-selected packages are actually recommendations; offer a choice to not install the recommendations
Or, alternativly, you could use the options already built into Yast to do ignore recommended packages. Look around. Its there,
Which affects ALL recommended packages, not only this one.
You don't bother with maintaining threads do you?
The point is that YaST offers a crippled dialog box in this situation. It should offer the choice in the dialog box, IMHO. Users shouldn't have to go chasing around to find facilities they don't even know exists.
It's poor UI design.
guess it's time for you to file an enhancement or bug request explaining what should be, or the dev's may never know about it.
The feature was there, but was removed two or three releases ago; perhaps 13.1 was the last to have it. We could mark a certain package we did not want "not install" and YaST would remember that selection till told to forget. So currently you can untick one package, but it gets automatically installed the next time. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)