Very likely you even want Suggests: instead of Recommends.

The difference is subtle - but if the user picks another flavor, recommends will keep on 'wanting to install the python3-FOO', whereas suggests does not trigger for installation unless it helps in adjusting the solver run

Benjamin Greiner (bnavigator) - over 1 year ago

author source maintainer

Thanks for the hint! Is this behavior of libsolv/zypper documented somewhere?