On 2017-07-02 21:26, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [07-02-17 14:45]:
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -qa texlive* | wc -l 1727 cer@Telcontar:~>
Yes, this is a known issue. If something wants or recommends texlive as a dependency, you get an awful lot of packages. And yes, they are intentionally that many so that you can choose exactly which of them you choose - as if anybody can select manually only 500 of them out of the list!
If you want them out, find out what recommended them. Or ban them. I don't know which one is the master package. Maybe "texlive-2015.20150521-26.29.x86_64".
my low count probably stems from always using --no-recommends
But I use LyX, so I need Tex even if not directly. What I say is only that they are so many packages (for fine control) that it is impossible to really control them manually. I mean, clic clic clic in yast... I think they should be grouped in bigger packages, after all disk space is cheap... thousands of packages is unmanageable. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)