On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Rajko M.
One of patterns that might be Larry's favorite for removal is Desktop Effects. If it is removed during installation nothing related to effects will be installed. Later, is more work, as removing pattern doesn't remove packages. You have to remove (uncheck) every package listed in the pattern, but even that is not holly script.
Agreed. I think this is a huge problem. When you remove it before installing, you can and it works. When you try after, it's broken. However, I have found that when I do remove before, when I try to install other programs after installation, I get all those I removed listed as dependencies UNLESS I taboo them. That just doesn't make sense to me.
This is also one area where openSUSE users can help development team. Instead of endless complains in all possible direction, export you favorite selection and offer as a sample. (I'll post this idea on opensuse-project, to see how to organize place where such configurations can be uploaded.) This will remove a lot of guesswork, what people like. Just as with screen savers, number of downloads will be the judge.
Dependencies will still be a problem. They have been and probably will be. My argument has always been why is something a dependency. There are too many dependencies. Like if I install KDE-PIM, it installs palm utils. Why not ask me if I have a palm, and then install the utils. How many people who use a PIM on a computer actually have a Palm? Is it that many? It's not from my experience, but I'm not everywhere and can't say. I could give many more examples..... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org