I have a Thinkpad W540 that I have very purposefully modified to use the quadro k2100m as the main graphics device via xorg configuration, sddm configuration, and nvidia prime.
I am currently experiencing an issue in which zypper automatically installs bbswitch which ruins my setup by disabling my nvidia graphics card at boot.
My question is as follows: Why is zypper trying to install bbswitch when I have purposefully removed it so many times?
Probably because it is a recommended package or part of a Pattern.
You can block it from being installed again automatic.
YaST : Software > Software Managment. Search for the package, at right Right-Click on the package and select Taboo - do not install from the context menu.
Have you locked the package, so that zypper won’t attempt to install? (zypper al package-name)
Thank you for both of these suggestions!
Is setting the package as taboo in Yast the same as adding a package lock in zypper?
Two User Interfaces to the same function.
And of course you read
man zypper
to understand what it does.