I have a group of Xen virtualised servers running very minimal installs of openSuSE 11.4 that I want to upgrade to 12.1 and then 12.2 using zypper dup.
When I run, zypper dup -D --no-recommends, it says it will install quite a few new packages that I don’t want or require such as MozillaFirefox. Does anyone know why it wants to install these extraneous packages and/or a way to stop it doing so.
I eventually found the cause of the Firefox install. The packages libproxy1-pacrunner-mozjs, mozilla-js192, mozilla-nspr had been installed through some earlier dependency and removing those stopped firefox appearing in the NEW packages to be installed. It looks as though I shall have to dig a bit deeper into some other unnecessary packages already installed to see if I can winnow the list down a bit.
> The packages libproxy1-pacrunner-mozjs, mozilla-js192, mozilla-nspr had been installed through some earlier dependency and removing those stopped firefox appearing in the NEW packages to be installed.
kinda what i was thinking (something in 11.4 was pulling in firefox)…