Hi, On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Stephan Kulow wrote:
On Thursday 29 October 2009 18:42:27 Bart Whiteley wrote:
I just installed 11.2 rc2 from gnome liveCD, then immediately ran 'zypper dup'. It installed over 1GB of new software, including 184MB worth of OpenOffice.org help files in six languages I don't speak.
Why doesn't 'zypper dup' stick to distribution upgrades? Instead it seems to install the union of the favorite packages of every SUSE developer, or some such.
Because the livecd distribution is not as complete as it can be. OpenOffice package recommends things and zypper upgrades your distribution to complete it.
That is something that can and should be mentioned somewhere, release notes, websites, whatever is "hip" currently. For some people it might be good news ("I'll get fantastic new languages I never dreamed of") that make a difference of choice, for some others it guides the expectations they have towards first online updates from a CD/liveCD/DVD. "Note that due to space limitations we can't put everything onto a physical medium like a DVD. We try to strive for a good balance but sometimes we have to leave out even recommended packages. So don't be surprised if the first online update you do tries to install some additional packages." Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: zypp-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: zypp-devel+help@opensuse.org