http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=936768 Bug ID: 936768 Summary: Language packages obey the wrong option for Recommended packages Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Factory Version: 201505* Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: libzypp Assignee: zypp-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: mvidner@suse.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de CC: gs@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- I have a system where only the English Language is installed (/var/lib/zypp/RequestedLocales has en_US). If I run the YaST package manager (qt or ncurses), enable Ignore Recommended Packages for Already Installed Packages (which will be the default, see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=902394 ) and add another language (eg Czech), no additional packages are selected. This is contrary to my expectation, since I consider Czech to be a new "package" so its recommended dependencies such as desktop-translations and bundle-lang-common-cs should be selected for installation. It works if I disable the Ignore...Already option. I wondered why the solver would behave so and I noticed that most language dependencies were expressed as conjunctions, eg bundle-lang-common-cs: Supplements: bash & namespace:language(cs) (it also has this, and I wonder why) Provides: locale (bash:cs) so in one way I see that bash is "already installed" so there's a pretext for not installing the bundle. OTOH the language is new, so the user expectation is IMHO clear. desktop-translations is even more interesting, since there is no conjunction, OTOH there is a disjunction. (Why not simply list a Supplements for each?) Supplements: namespace:language(af) | ... | namespace:language(cs) | ... I noticed all this when converting the Ignore...Already option to a one-time command similar to `zypper inr`. Gabi then argued that it was necessary for it to remain an option so that language rpms can be installed. I think that they should obey the onlyRequires option, which is newly exposed in the UIs as "Install Recommended Packages" (boo#900853). Overall, I consider this a part of a bigger cleanup of Recommends, https://fate.suse.com/318099 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.