TL;DR devel_basis
This is the umpteenth time I looked up what build-essential is on openSUSE. For my purposes, it’s the devel_basis pattern.
To see what packages have the pattern,
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$ zypper info -t pattern devel_basis
Yes it has a lot of packages, but I usually end up installing many of those anyways.
To install devel_basis,
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$ sudo zypper install -t pattern devel_basis
That’s all. I’ve started remembering to use the notes on my site, which means it occurs to me that more notes would be helpful.