openSUSE with KDE Plasma tries to auto install a web browser during upgrades

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I use the Firefox Flatpak instead of the RPM since the codec situation with system packages is pretty messy, and was wondering if there was a way to keep my system from automatically installing a web browser upon upgrades? After it installed Firefox I added a package lock to prevent it from doing it again, but then it installed Chromium on a different upgrade. I don’t want an RPM-based browser on my system.

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@constancies just add locks for the offending packages… eg zypper al chromium

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I suppose that works, but then it will just keep trying to install a different web browser. Maybe I’ll just install something small like Falkon and then it will not try to install any others.

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No. It doesn’t work like that. Some pattern package does require chromium, not “some browser”. So uninstalling, then locking chromium is the way to go.

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If I lock chromium, it will then try to install elinks.

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@constancies not seen that here, I added locks for MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE and chromium and not seen any other appear…

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I think it happens when you run sudo zypper dup --recommends. I think the --recommends flag tends to get called by apps like Discover.

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Ok, it will stop trying to auto install a web browser once I add these package locks:

MozillaFirefox
chromium
elinks
falkon
links
lynx
seamonkey
w3m
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No. It doesn’t work like that. Some pattern package does require chromium, not “some browser”. So uninstalling, then locking chromium is the way to go.

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