On 5/21/24 1:41 AM, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
On 05-20-2024 09:54AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On 20.05.2024 16:45, -pj via openSUSE Users wrote:
On 05-20-2024 01:37AM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 8:43 AM -pj via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
Hi, I am wondering about how I should best go about purging packages and possibly dependencies along with what is displayed after passing 'zypper pa --unneeded'.
Why? What problem are you trying to solve?
I would like to remove packages that are bloating the machine. So that I can keep the machines package structure well organized.
Whack a mole ... then it is arguably makes more sense to start with --no-recommends and only add what you need.
... Why is "--no-recommends" not the default behavior then?
In the modern age of both cheap storage and memory, the feedback we as openSUSE tend to get is that most users who install Tumbleweed and or Leap want something that just works for them out of the box and would rather for example to have 12 various desktop apps installed out of the box even if they'll probably only use 5 of them to save themselves having to go through and install a bunch of software that they'd like post install. In contrast these days we now have MicroOS which aims to install as minimal host os as possible and one of the ways it does that is using "--no-recommends" as the default behavior. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B