Bug 605490

Summary: No "autoinstallation" of translations and recommended packages
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Martin Schlander <martin.schlander>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Michael Andres <ma>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: mvidner
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Description Martin Schlander 2010-05-13 09:04:58 UTC 
User-Agent:       Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; da) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.53

Historically when you first run the package manager on a live cd installation, it would want to install a bunch of things including java (openjdk), pull-in-flash and translations for the language you selected at grub when booting the livecd etc.

I have done a livecd installation of x86 kde livecd build0600 and it's not trying to pull-in _anything_.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Martin Schlander 2010-05-13 09:09:15 UTC 
I did replace the default oss/snapshot repo with the factory repo (yast2 flavour), dunno if that could have something to do with it.
Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2010-05-26 09:59:42 UTC 
no idea why it wouldn't do that.
Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2010-06-04 13:45:54 UTC 
ok, this is limited to the yast interface (and possibly even a wanted change). zypper dup will still pull in danish.

Having a package pulling in danish on updates is something that is most likely wanted to not rely on recommended packages that much.
Comment 4 Martin Schlander 2010-06-04 14:12:47 UTC 
Ok, I was just surprised by the changed behaviour, assuming it was a bug.

I agree that users might be happier without 300-400 megs of recommended stuff being installed on the first run of yast.

And I think it should be good enough for users to install their language via yast2 language or sw_single -> language view.

But will flash-player still get pulled in?
Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2010-06-04 14:37:06 UTC 
the default was changed unintentionally
Comment 6 Michael Andres 2010-06-04 15:19:44 UTC 
fixed in libzypp-7.7.3
Comment 7 Martin Vidner 2015-06-16 11:43:08 UTC 
For reference, the fix was https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp/commit/34653aef5fb79759ad8f0d7e3a8bc65cb449eabf

I found this while investigating a request to make it configurable: https://fate.suse.com/318099 'Possibility to install with "no recommends"'
Comment 8 Martin Vidner 2015-06-23 08:04:36 UTC 
See also https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=835968 for a later manifestation of this bug or a similar one.