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Why if i enable online repositoreis during Mageia installation i have more rpms to install even though the i check same packages to install ? I know when i enable online repos, some packages are much never for example firefox, but this isnt rolling release and dependencies should not change so much. With online repos enabled i have several dozen (on icewm) or several hundred (on GNOME) rpms more to install. For example
Installation #1
Source: Core Release (Installer), Nonfree Release (Installer)
Packages: Unselect All + With X + Install recommended packages + With basic documentation + neofetch
Summary: 923 rpms
Installation #2
Source: Core Release (Installer), Nonfree Release (Installer), Core Release, Core Updates, Nonfree Release, Nonfree Updates
Packages: Unselect All + With X + Install recommended packages + With basic documentation + neofetch
Summary: 999 rpms
Same configuration but when online repos are enabled there is 76 more packages installed. If i had chosen desktop environment then it would be several hundred rpms difference. Why ? Different dependecy resolving on never packages ?

The installation media size is limited, so they do not contain recommended packages.
When using repositories, recommended packages are considered, hence the additional packages.
See e.g. https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Basesystem_Size_Evolution for a size comparison.

Is there a way to afterwards automatically install all packages recommended by all installed packages?

No, sadly not by default. This has been reported ages ago in Mandriva times as bug 36997: suggests should be reconsidered when adding new medias
I've brought this up again as https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/dev/2021-03/msg00323.html but nobody really showed any interest so far.

As a workaround there's a one-liner in my mail which can be used to install missing suggests for installed packages.