Zypper v Yast and limiting upgrades

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I wanted to clarify 2 things regarding package management.

  1. I went to Yast and software management - I searched and selected the ‘chromium’ package. It then advised that there were 40 other optional dependencies to go with this selection. After reviewing the packages I didn’t feel the suggestions were appropriate so I aborted the change. I went to the command line and did
zypper in chromium

I was asked to install 3 packages. Why the difference between zypper and Yast ?

  1. I have packman and KDE:extra repositories enabled. Is there a way without disabling those repositories to stop them replacing system packages during an update? So limit them to install only and update only of their packages ?
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Hmm, I can’t confirm that. Zypper and yast behaves exactly the same in case of chromium and wants to install 3 packages:

chromium chromium-desktop-gnome chromium-suid-helper

Have a look at the option --repo:

-r, --repo <alias|name|#|URI>
Work only with the repository specified by the alias, name, num-
ber, or URI. This option can be used multiple times.

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On 2012-10-06 02:46, flebber wrote:
> I was asked to install 3 packages. Why the difference between zypper
> and Yast ?

Try YOU, see if it wants to install anything.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)