Need to reinstall tumbleweed?

[Nasendackel]

Hi, I love tumbleweed. Fact.
I maybe a newbie question. As a rolling device I don’t have reinstall.
But what I don’t understand … does the system remove obsolete packages automatically?
For an example. I switched to selinux, but cannot remove apparmor, because it will remove a bunch of other schemata.
Or do I have to remove all theses schemata and reinstall them?
So what is a good strategy to keep “rolling”?

Thanks a lot

[marel]

Welcome!

Too much packages is not real problem unless you run into disk space issues and for disk space issue typically program data is not the main culprit.

That said, it has been discussed before on this forum:

How to remove unneeded dependencies from uninstalled packages using zypper?

By consulting “zypper help rm” there’s the “-u” option, but it demands a package (uninstalled package?) as argument. Other distributions such as Debian, RedHat, and based on them, have the “autoremove” function in their corresponding package manager tools, which works quite well. Is there not another way in openSUSE other than “zypper rm -u ”? Thanks.

[arvidjaar]

@Nasendackel

does the system remove obsolete packages automatically?

Define “obsolete packages”.

If you mean “Obsoletes” as used in RPM - yes, of course, it happens automatically.

If you mean “packages that I no more need” - no, system cannot read your mind.

@Nasendackel

I switched to selinux, but cannot remove apparmor

And why exactly is it bad? What harm several packages and files lying on your disk cause? You also cannot remove AppArmor from the kernel, it is always present, and - gasp - it is the default LSM in SUSE kernels.

@Nasendackel

it will remove a bunch of other schemata

I do not know what “schemata” means, but yes, there are some packages that have hard dependency on AppArmor. If you happen to have one of them installed - open bug report for the respective package.

[Nasendackel]

Sorry, I was not quite clear in my words, but your answer helped a lot