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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: What is pulling in *-lang packages?
From:       Patrick Shanahan <paka () opensuse ! org>
Date:       2024-05-02 18:35:30
Message-ID: 20240502183530.GO15305 () wahoo ! no-ip ! org
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* Joe Salmeri <jmscdba@gmail.com> [05-02-24 14:28]:
> On 4/18/24 2:07 PM, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > On 18.04.2024 20:59, Togan Muftuoglu via openSUSE Factory wrote:
> > > > > > > > "PS" == Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> writes:
> > > 
> > >      PS> but, quite a few of us do and whether we "all" do or not is
> > >      PS> irrelivant. the problem, anomaly does exist and is of
> > > concern to those
> > >      PS> who do.
> > > 
> > >      PS> I have seen the problem for years not and frequently: rpm
> > > -e --nodeps
> > >      PS> iso-codes-lang ; zypper -v rm *-lang
> > > 
> > > Maybe it's time to add --nodeps flag to zypper
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > You explicitly told zypper that you want locale support. Now you
> > complain that zypper installs locale support and want flag to tell
> > zypper to ignore what you configured.
> > 
> > If you do not want locale support, do not configure zypper to install
> > locale related packages.
> 
> I have not modified the default zypper config and yet I also run into the
> issue of the language packages being installed.
> 
> zypper lloc
> 
> Code  | Language                | Requested
> ------+-------------------------+----------
> en    | English                 | Fallback
> en_US | English (United States) | Requested
> 
> 
> grep -i locale /etc/zypp/zypp*.conf
> 
> /etc/zypp/zypp.conf:## A list of locales for which translated package
> descriptions should
> /etc/zypp/zypp.conf:## Valid values:  List of locales like 'en', 'en_US'...
> /etc/zypp/zypp.conf:## If data for a specific locale are not available, we
> try to find some
> /etc/zypp/zypp.conf:# repo.refresh.locales = en, de
> 
> 
> All configuration lines are just comments.
> 
> The zypper addlock '*-lang" didn't work for me because then when
> iso-codes-lang needs updating it fails because it is locked.
> 
> I end up manually removing all *-lang packages except for iso-codes-lang and
> then added locks for all the language packages that I removed.

removing iso-codes-lang causes no problem but wants to take many apps with
it.

  rpm -e --nodeps iso-codes-lang 

will remove it w/o affecting other apps.


 
> Whenever a new one gets installed I remove it and add a lock for it.
> 
> So where is the configuration that you refer to that will stop it from
> installing the language packages ?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Joe

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