This document is my personal notes from getting back into SuSE again from years using debian and ubuntu.
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37477290/build-essential-for-opensuse
- https://randomgeekery.org/post/2014/06/what-is-build-essentials-for-opensuse/
SuSE/Zypper uses something called patterns to group packages together.
The deb equivalent to patters would be meta-packages I guess.
There is a pattern called devel_basis
that sort of matches build-essential.