I have an openSUSE server with lots of unnecessary packages installed, which I'd like to remove. However, I find that when I try to do that zypper often wants to install other packages in their place? Why on Earth do I need to install stuff to remove stuff? How do I just remove it?
For example, I want to uninstall all x11 packages so I run:
zypper rm xorg-x11*
I get this:
...
Resolving package dependencies...
The following packages are going to be upgraded:
python-qt python-qt4 splashy suspend t1lib
The following packages are going to be downgraded:
libx86 qt3
The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
dbus-1-32bit file-32bit fontconfig-32bit freetype2-32bit libdrm-32bit
libexpat1-32bit libgcc43-32bit libgcrypt11-32bit libglib-2_0-0-32bit
libgpg-error0-32bit libgthread-2_0-0-32bit libjpeg-32bit liblcms1-32bit
liblzo2-2-32bit libmng-32bit libpng12-0-32bit libqt4-32bit libqt4-sql-32bit
libstdc++43-32bit libtiff3-32bit libuuid1-32bit pciutils-32bit pcre-32bit
sysfsutils-32bit xorg-x11-libICE-32bit xorg-x11-libSM-32bit xorg-x11-libX11-32bit
xorg-x11-libXau-32bit xorg-x11-libXext-32bit xorg-x11-libXfixes-32bit
xorg-x11-libXmu-32bit xorg-x11-libXp-32bit xorg-x11-libXpm-32bit
xorg-x11-libXprintUtil-32bit xorg-x11-libXrender-32bit xorg-x11-libXt-32bit
xorg-x11-libXv-32bit xorg-x11-libfontenc-32bit xorg-x11-libs-32bit
xorg-x11-libxcb-32bit xorg-x11-libxkbfile-32bit zlib-32bit
The following packages are going to be reinstalled:
DirectFB Mesa libQtWebKit4 libqt4-qt3support libqt4-x11 php5-gd
The following packages are going to be REMOVED:
xorg-x11-libICE xorg-x11-libSM xorg-x11-libX11 xorg-x11-libXau xorg-x11-libXext
xorg-x11-libXfixes xorg-x11-libXmu xorg-x11-libXp xorg-x11-libXpm
xorg-x11-libXprintUtil xorg-x11-libXrender xorg-x11-libXt xorg-x11-libXv
xorg-x11-libfontenc xorg-x11-libs xorg-x11-libxcb xorg-x11-libxkbfile
The following packages are going to change architecture:
DirectFB Mesa libQtWebKit4 libqt4-qt3support libqt4-x11 libx86 php5-gd python-qt
python-qt4 qt3 splashy suspend t1lib
Overall download size: 34.9 M. After the operation, additional 1.9 M will be used.
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