Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (689 mails)

[Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>]

On 03/04/2013 09:35 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 04/03/13 19:18, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > Am 04.03.2013 05:32, schrieb Basil Chupin:
> >
> > > So, both make and gcc are important.
> > >
> > > Hell, what degree of difficulty is there to add a 358Kb and a 4Kb file
> > > for make and gcc, respectively, to the default install list?
> > Oh, I'd like to have kernel-debuginfo and crash in the default install
> > list.
> > I often use them, they are important, so they should be default.
> >
> > (and kdumptool already can send email ;-)
>
> Methinks that this is taking it a bit too far. make and gcc are required
> to be able to compile the nvidia driver to be able to get a decent
> picture on the screen as well as to be able to get the Desktop Effects
> working. Fooling around with a kernel is not part of getting the oS to
> work correctly.

I don't care about nvidia, so I really don't need a compiler on a
machine. Some manuals also say this is not safe on a production machine.

What you need here is to fix nvidia package to require those... The same
for the others which require something and don't clearly declare that in
a spec file.

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js
suse labs
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