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On 2024-05-09 05:35, cagsm wrote:
okay sorry, this is just a very simple machine, i am not developing anything. also i am unaware of ever having to have installed any devel packages? just wanted to upgrade a machine from 15.5 to 15.6 rc, this machine probably came from 15.4 earlier and even older releases before that i guess. but pretty sure its always been only very simple normal use cases kde desktop and nothing fancy at all.
ty I had a suspicion you would sooner or later be saying this. The most likely reason you have all these development packages installed is because they were recommended by something else. They got installed because your zypper configuration allows installation of recommended packages. To stop this, (as root) load /etc/zypp/zypp.conf into your favourite editor, and find "solver.onlyRequires". Most likely it is set to "false". Change that to "true" (without the quotes) and save the file.