Comment # 3 on bug 916804 from Jon Grossart

(In reply to Raymond Wooninck from comment #1)
> From where do you get patterns-openSUSE-plasma5_basis ??  At this moment the
> openSUSE KDE Community team does NOT offer ANY Plasma5 patterns. 
> 
> Working with patterns have their advantages and disadvantages. Deinstalling
> a package that belongs to a pattern, will cause that the pattern is being
> removed. However that does NOT mean that the applications that were
> installed through this pattern will also be removed. They will remain on the
> system and will be updated as normal. 
> 
> Please clarify where you got this pattern from.

I got this pattern from the Tumbleweed repos where it provided by the KDE team.

I know that uninstalling the basis doesn't remove the packages, but it also
doesn't pull in any future updates to that pattern then either.