* Liam Proven <lproven@suse.cz> [06-15-18 12:58]:
On 15/06/18 18:44, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2018-06-15 17:09, Liam Proven wrote:
But all my supplementary repos are set at priority 99. There's no real logical priority between them; apparently that is a user issue. I.e., do it yourself. IMHO that's bad.
Just choose the priority...
I look up the recommended solution and I do what it says there. I don't know what priorities to choose or what's important; every guide, and every one-click install, seems to set them all at the minimum one.
This may be a valuable field for a skilled sysadmin, but I am not a skilled openSUSE sysadmin. As such, I expect the OS to make such decisions for me, or to make it easier.
Then enable vendor change. The default is "no", and for good reasons. I want "no". Yes, there is a command line option to enable it.
So if everyone says don't do it, why should I do it? I follow the advice I find online, and in response, the packaging tool nags at me.
I think that is suboptimal. Is that wrong of me?
yes, since you do have control of the option. do you do everything everyone tells you?
I do not like it that the packaging tool says "there are 42 other updates available that I won't install". That worries me.
but YOU have configured it to do that. you are only worried about a choice you already made.
However, my choices are to either do them individually -- bad -- or to change a config file and make a permanent change or remember to revert it manually -- also bad.
you either want control or you don't. but YOU have a choice.
I think a simpler option would be:
[1] Have an interactive option to do those updates too. [2] Have a secondary option to remember the choice.
For comparison look at the difference between "recommends" and "suggests" in Apt.
Ubuntu defaults to ``--install-recommends'' and has for years. But you can also add ``--install-suggests'' too -- but it can add a large number of additional packages.
If I tell my OS to update itself, I expect it to install all available updates. I am not happy when it says there are more but it won't do them.
Remove the kernel. Just do it. Borked system.
Sure, I've done that before. :-)
It's the Unix way. It does what you tell it to do.
I expect this of all Linuxes, TBH.
But on Ubuntu it was easy to fix. I booted from a CD with root=/dev/sda5 or whatever, and then once it booted, I did ``apt install linux-kernel-generic" or whatever it's called. Job done. It ran ``update-grub'' for me and everything.
This stuff is still rather more work on openSUSE, which is why I'd probably primarily recommend openSUSE as a _server_ distro.
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