This system has been updated via "zypper dup" for seven, eight months after
my new notebook was installed from scratch.

Trying to slim down things a bit, I noticed remnants of the old python2 
stack that do not appear to be needed any longer:

# zypper -v rm --clean-deps python
:
The following 3 packages are going to be REMOVED:
  libpython2_7-1_0  2.7.18-5.2
  python            2.7.18-5.3
  python-base       2.7.18-5.2

3 packages to remove.
After the operation, 27,3 MiB will be freed.


Is this something the "zypper dup" magic machinery could take care for
us?