On 2013-09-27 19:33 (GMT-0600) Orion Poplawski composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
> I'm not having any luck figuring out how Yum can be limited
to
> installing only hard dependencies when any given package is installed,
> avoiding "nice to have" things that take time to install and update that
> I'll never use. If this is covered in the yum.conf man page I missed it.
> In zypper's zypp.conf this is done via InstallRecommends = no. In
> Mageia, --no-suggests is used with urpmi. How is it handled in Fedora?
In Fedora, there are only hard dependencies - no suggests.
That statement in conjunction with behavior I've observed seems to indicate
hard dependencies have been created for what on other distros would be
suggests. e.g., 'yum install konsole' results in 1 package plus 190 dependent
packages to be installed, among them:
GConf2
cdparanoia-libs
5 gstreamers
libavc1394
libraw1394
libsmbclient
libssh
libvorbis
3 nepomuks
40 perl packages
2 phonons
3 popplers
2 pulseaudios
sound-theme-freedesktop
soundtouch
speex
strigi
upower
yum install kcalc isn't quite so bad, 1 + 125, and yet it's ka ka that a
simple calculator needs qtwebkit, desktop search, firewire and sound support
installed.
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