Removing Packages & Dependencies Using Zypper

English Install/Boot/Login
#1

I’m running the latest Tumbleweed release. Sometimes when I install software using YaST, I don’t install all the recommended packages. I don’t mark things as Taboo, but YaST sometimes allows certain packages to be unchecked and the software runs fine without the added bloat. The problem that comes up later, is that when it comes time I want to remove packages that I may have installed in “increments”, zypper -u doesn’t uninstall the main package and its recommended packages. Sometimes it will only uninstall 2 packages when I know there are many more. Libzypp still knows what is what, because if I were to try to uninstall any particular package that something else depended on, I would get a warning. Considering that if I were to keep track of every single package I installed manually (like writing it down), I could remove packages that zypper rm -u is missing without any warning.

So, my question is, is there a way to override this?

#2

This will be moved to Tumbleweed, … and is CLOSED for the moment.

#3

Moved from Install/Boot/Login and open again.

#4

On 2015-07-18 19:26, hcvv wrote:
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> hcvv;2720015 Wrote:
>> This will be moved to Tumbleweed, … and is CLOSED for the moment.
>
> Moved from Install/Boot/Login and open again.

In YaST there is such a feature. Remove something and dependencies.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))

#5

I know, but that just duplicates zypper -u. As far as I know they do the same exact thing.

#6

On 2015-07-18 20:36, pirithous wrote:
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> I know, but that just duplicates zypper -u. As far as I know they do
> the same exact thing.

Ah, ok. I haven’t used any of them much, and when I heard of it, several
(many?) months ago it was considered experimental. They wanted feedback.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.

(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))