I was bug testing the network manager in KDE a few months ago, and installed the Gnome desktop to test whether it was a problem with the underlying packages, or if it was a KDE specific issue. Now that I don't need Gnome anymore, I decided to uninstall it from the system. Normally, I would be fine with leaving a separate DE but associated file types were not being obeyed throughout the system despite attempts to set everything to KDE applications, so much so it became a necessity to remove the Gnome-specific applications. However, when I do zypper dup after uninstalling most of the gnome packages, it tries to install the full gnome desktop again. How do I stop zypper from pulling in these packages? Here's the output from zypper dup with only the Gnome packages zypper is attempting to install shown. The following 8 applications are going to be installed: Documents Files "GNOME Color Manager" "GNOME Control Center" "GNOME Music" "GNOME Package Updater" "GNOME Software" Videos The following 58 NEW packages are going to be installed: gdm gdm-branding-openSUSE gdmflexiserver gnome-bluetooth gnome-color-manager gnome-color-manager-lang gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-color gnome-control-center-user-faces gnome-documents gnome-documents_books-common gnome-keyring gnome-keyring-pam gnome-keyring-pam-32bit gnome-menus gnome-menus-branding-openSUSE gnome- music gnome-packagekit gnome-session gnome-session-core gnome-session-default-session gnome-session-wayland gnome-settings-daemon gnome-shell gnome-shell-browser-plugin gnome-shell-calendar gnome-shell-search-provider-documents gnome-shell-search-provider-nautilus gnome-shell-wayland gnome-software gnome-themes-accessibility gnome-version gtk2-engine-hcengine libgck-modules-gnome-keyring libgnomekbd libgnomesu libgnomesu0 libgtksourceview-3_0-1 libmutter0 mutter mutter-data nautilus nautilus-extension-terminal nautilus-extension-tracker- tags nautilus-totem NetworkManager-connection-editor NetworkManager-gnome NetworkManager-vpnc orca plasma-nm5-vpnc polkit-gnome sushi totem totem-plugins tracker-miner-files typelib-1_0-GtkSource-3_0 typelib-1_0-Meta-3_0 yelp