Bug 577783

Summary:	[Education/lilypond] should not cause installation of selfphp
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE.org	Reporter:	Bernhard Wiedemann <novellbmw>
Component:	3rd party software	Assignee:	Benjamin Weber <benji>
Status:	VERIFIED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <opensuse-communityscreening>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P4 - Low	CC:	lars.vogdt
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	openSUSE 11.2
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Community User	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	yast2 log of the install

Description Bernhard Wiedemann 2010-02-07 09:04:48 UTC

Lilypond pulls in selfphp, selflinux and selfhtml as soft dependencies, which does not make sense.


How to Reproduce:
as root 
OneClickInstallUI http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/Education/openSUSE_11.2/lilypond.ymp

Actual Results:
installs big documentation packages selfphp selflinux selfhtml. Those can be removed with rpm -e, so they are not actual hard dependencies.

Expected Results:
should only install what is really needed (e.g. libguile)


I found via the build service _link entry that this package is linked to Factory:Contrib, but
OneClickInstallUI http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/openSUSE:Factory:Contrib/openSUSE_11.2/lilypond.ymp
did not pull in those extra packages.

Comment 1 Lars Vogdt 2010-03-06 22:02:59 UTC

Sorry, can't find any dependencies in lilypond or in the lilypond.ymp for any "self*" package.

Please attach the file /var/log/zypper.log to this bug, so we can check what's causing the real problem.

Comment 2 Bernhard Wiedemann 2010-03-11 21:03:38 UTC

Created attachment 348027 [details]
yast2 log of the install

OneClickInstall did not create zypper.log so I extracted the relevant chunk from /var/log/YaST2/y2log

rpm now has "suggests" and "recommends" fields which might cause this.

Comment 3 Lars Vogdt 2010-03-21 19:35:25 UTC

Well: selfphp, selflinux and selfhtml contain:

Provides:       locale(susehelp:de)

So those packages should be installed on a german desktop system with installed susehelp system => not a bug, it's a feature - as the seen behavior is what is wanted. 

For people using the Education repository, this is not a problem - but people just using the "OneClickInstall" feature did not expect that the whole repository is added to their system including the installation of all soft and hard dependencies.

Benjamin: assigning the bug to you as Author of the yast2-metapackage-handler. 

Looks like the handler needs some improvements like:
* checkboxes for handling soft-/hard dependencies (Suggests, Recommends)
* only install the needed package and it's dependencies - afterwards remove the repo

Comment 4 Lars Vogdt 2011-03-23 22:24:40 UTC

no response