On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:18:50AM +0200, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:
On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 08:10:58 +0200, Andrea Turrini
said: Andrea> Hi all, Andrea> I have just noted that the latest official texlive update from the Andrea> repo-update for openSUSE 12.3 wants to install 749 upgrades and 348 Andrea> new packages.
Andrea> No problem with the upgrades; the problem is about the new Andrea> packages: they are all -devel and texlive-*-doc packages.
Andrea> In particular, the -devel packages are required by freeglut-devel Andrea> that is required by texlive-asymptote.
Andrea> Now, the questions are: Andrea> - is it correct that texlive-asymptote requires freeglut-devel? Andrea> - how can I prevent the installation of all -doc packages? I do not Andrea> need them and it is not feasible to add a lock for each of them (242 Andrea> packages)
I filed a bug bnc#833498 , but in my case there were no -doc packages
As maintainer of TeXLive I had been told that asymptote requires freeglut development environment to be fully usable. Guess: this is required to link output of asymptote with freeglut library. -> closed this bug as WONTFIX Werner -- "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." -- Edward Burr