Maybe my first description was a bit confusing, I try to clarify: When you create an opensuse container, the lxc-opensuse template calls zypper to install some packages into a local cache directory. After that, /usr/bin/build is called to create a 'real' installation from that. With build version 20131015, this checks some dependencies, and after that puts out many lines with [cumulating xyz]. Don't ask me what this does exactly. On 13.2 or Tumbleweed, the same command checks the dependencies and after that, instead of preparing a container environment, starts to uninstall packages from the host. It does not uninstall things from this cache directory, it really uninstalls them from the host. Somehow the build behaviour must have changed between build-20131015 and build- 20141024. I guess the command needs to be adapted somehow. But I am no build expert. I hope I could clarify the problem, if not, feel free to ask.