Install package as a dependency in openSUSE

[zanem0ne]

@hcvv

Hello and welcome here.

Maybe you should explain better what that feature does. Those who never used Arch Linux may have no idea what you are after and thus it will be difficult if, and when yes how, you can achive the same result on openSUSE.

Basically, “–asdeps” prefix installs package as a dependency or optional package ( recommends / suggestions).

There are 2 main categories in pacman: explicitly installed and optionally installed / dependencies.

Whenever you remove explicit packages, pacman also removes optionally installed packages and dependencies.

However, if package is optional but you installed it as explicit (without “–asdeps” prefix), pacman won’t automatically delete it, meaning this package would be an orphan remaining in the system.

So, I’m wondering how I may install packages as recommendations / suggestions in openSUSE manually (for example, if they were not installed initially), so zypper could remove them when I delete the main package.