Handling of suggests

[Todd Rme]

Recently, a bunch of recommends in python-matplotlib were changed to suggests:

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/249989

Does YaST2 have any mechanism in place to install suggests? If not,
what practical role do they play?

[Jan Engelhardt]

Post by Todd Rme
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/249989
Does YaST2 have any mechanism in place to install suggests? If not,
what practical role do they play?

IMO, the point of suggests, based upon what apt-get seems to do, is to
display their names just before installation really starts, so that the
user can look them up individually and decide.

[Todd Rme]

Post by Jan Engelhardt

Post by Todd Rme
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/249989
Does YaST2 have any mechanism in place to install suggests? If not,
what practical role do they play?

IMO, the point of suggests, based upon what apt-get seems to do, is to
display their names just before installation really starts, so that the
user can look them up individually and decide.

Does YaST2 do that? I haven't noticed it.

Post by Jan Engelhardt
From what I recall with Synaptic, it provides a right-click menu to

install *.deb suggests. I haven't been able to find anything like
that in YaST.