Devs, All, I created a signed local repo with patched Nvidia packages for the G04 driver. My intent was simply to: # zypper -r mynvidiarepo dup To move all Nvidia packages to the versions in my repo. When I did, zypper proposed updating the 7 driver packages, but then also proposed removing most of the kde3 desktop (53 packages). I'm at a loss to why zypper would propose the removal of unrelated packages when simply trying to update Nvidia drivers. My first thought was there must have been some problem with the .spec and dependencies -- but I can't imaging what that would be. Where would I start to look for why zypper proposed the removal of the kde3 packages on change of versions for the Nvidia drivers? To work around this problem, I simply rsynced the repo to my laptop and then did a: # zypper in *.rpm Which worked fine and didn't suggest uninstalling anything. So what's the difference in dup or in for the package removals? (I would have copied the zypper dup output -- but the dkms driver build scrolled everything out of the xterm buffer :( Thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.