-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2013-09-18 at 19:13 -0400, Michael Fischer wrote:
Some unpleasant experiences with yast/zypper today.
on a perfectly fine 12.1, I did `zypper up chromium`,
12.1 can not be fine - there are no updates for it, out of maintenance.
After the basic install of 12.3, I used yast to download VLC, Virtualbox, pidgin and tree. This somehow required 1040 packages, including gnumeric, kde-wallpapers and gnucash-docs. Just to name a few really silly ones. No way in any sane universe those packages "needed" by VLC, Virtualbox, pidgin and tree.
Some might be updates that were pending for 12.3. Another posibility: if you install, for example, a system with KDE, and then you ask for a package that happens to be from Gnome, then it usually brings in a lot of dependencies.
I can understand the billion libxyz's getting installed, and that the dependency management is a lovely slice of hell, but really, was all this necessary in any way?
In those cases I try to deselect some of those those absurd packages. If yast does not complain, it stays off. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlI6SEUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VpIQCeOI8ETrIurw6TbPQ/nfTpWxIi 8t8AnRZSQzFATCBO6mnbYM8AqGk1Qskg =STx7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org