Comment # 9 on bug 1183611 from Alejandro Morales Lepe

(In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #8)
> As far as I can see in the logs, yast2-control-center-qt is installed as a
> dependency of the installation of the Plasma desktop.
> 
> So the installer is actually honoring the package/patterns dependencies as
> expected. Although I agree is not obvious at first sight for someone not
> familiar with the concepts of patterns, taboos, etc.
> 
> From that point of view, I'm closing the bug.
> 
> (In reply to Alejandro Morales Lepe from comment #7)
> > 
> > Is YaST a dependency in that case? or is it safe to remove it or expect it
> > not to be present in an openSUSE installation?
> 
> It's totally safe and fine to run an openSUSE system without YaST installed.
> That's what openSUSE MicroOS does, for example.
> 
> I know LCP was reorganizing the YaST patterns to make them more granular. So
> I'm adding lcp to CC. In case he wants to add something, or to make some
> adaptations to the KDE patterns based on this bug report.

I have seen the same behavior on a GNOME and Xfce installation, so the
dependency is present in some package in those patterns as well. I have done an
installation and manually selected MATE as desktop, and it also brought in
YaST2 even if I told it not to, I am attaching that log here.