I’ve been trying Tumbleweed for my gaming needs and so far it seems to be working relatively well. My issue is about removed packages. When I first installed TW, I removed quite a few packages I did not want (KSudoku, LibreOffice, and a few others). It has been a little since I’ve turned on my PC but yesterday I noticed that KSudoku, LibreOffice, and really all other apps I thought I had uninstalled (sudo zypper remove <package-name>) were back on my desktop. I thought “maybe I forgot to uninstalled them in the first place” so I went through and removed all the unwanted stuff again. Since it had been awhile I updated my OS right after uninstalling those packages. After the update (sudo zypper up), I rebooted and immediately noticed that all those packages I had just removed were back (AGAIN). So WTF… am I not removing those unwanted packages “properly”? Why do they keep coming back after updates? How can I prevent this?
Okay so I ran sudo zypper search pattern* and found one called patterns-games-games and patterns-office-office. I assume these are the “patterns” responsible for installing stuff like Kmines, KSoduku, LibreOffice, etc which I don’t want. I also assume I can run sudo zypper remove patterns-games-games to remove it all? Or do I need to remove the packages individually and then remove the pattern?
If you taboo a pattern it and the packages it would install will never be installed automatically. I tend to taboo those games patterns.
Removing a pattern doesn’t unfortunately remove the packages it installs. Only the pattern “package” is removed.