diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/base/pkg-map b/diskimage_builder/elements/base/pkg-map
index f9694a10..9b4069b4 100644
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/base/pkg-map
+++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/base/pkg-map
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
       "syslinux-common": "",
       "tftp": "net-ftp/tftp-hpa",
       "tgt": "sys-block/tgt"
+    },
+    "suse": {
+      "qemu-utils": "qemu-tools"
     }
   },
   "default": {
diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/bootloader/pkg-map b/diskimage_builder/elements/bootloader/pkg-map
index 4094feb6..95751956 100644
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/bootloader/pkg-map
+++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/bootloader/pkg-map
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     },
     "suse": {
       "dkms_package": "",
+      "extlinux": "syslinux",
       "grub-pc": "grub2"
     },
     "redhat": {
diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/dracut-ramdisk/pkg-map b/diskimage_builder/elements/dracut-ramdisk/pkg-map
index e3f83163..2759236a 100644
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/dracut-ramdisk/pkg-map
+++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/dracut-ramdisk/pkg-map
@@ -6,10 +6,13 @@
     },
     "redhat":{
       "ncat":"nmap-ncat"
+    },
+    "suse":{
+      "arping": "iputils"
     }
   },
   "default":{
     "ncat":"ncat",
     "tftp":"tftp"
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/install-packages b/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/install-packages
index 7728b2e4..6d61d616 100755
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/install-packages
+++ b/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/install-packages
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ set -eu
 set -o pipefail
 
 EXTRA_ARGS="--no-recommends"
-MAP_ELEMENT=""
+MAP_ELEMENT=
 ACTION=install
 
 SCRIPTNAME=$(basename $0)
@@ -57,39 +57,16 @@ while true ; do
     esac
 done
 
-# Packages that aren't available in the distro but requested for installation
-# can be ignored by adding them to the exclude list
-BLACKLIST=('')
-WHITELIST=('')
-
-for i in "$@"
-do
-    PKG_NAME=$i
-    if [ -n "$MAP_ELEMENT" ]; then
-        if !  PKG_NAME=$(pkg-map --element $MAP_ELEMENT $i); then
-            echo "bin/pkg-map error. $PKG_NAME"
-            exit 1
-        fi
-    fi
-    if [[ ! ${BLACKLIST[*]} =~ $PKG_NAME ]]; then
-        WHITELIST+="$i "
-    else
-        echo "The package $i is not available and will not be installed"
-    fi
-done
-
-if [ -n "$WHITELIST" ]; then
-    if [ -n "$MAP_ELEMENT" ]; then
-        if ! PKGS=$(pkg-map --element $MAP_ELEMENT $WHITELIST); then
-            echo "bin/pkg-map error. $PKGS"
-            exit 1
-        fi
-    else
-        PKGS=$(map-packages $WHITELIST)
-    fi
-    if [ -z "${PKGS}" ]; then
-        echo 'No packages need to be installed'
-    else
-        run_zypper $ACTION $EXTRA_ARGS $PKGS
+PKGS=$@
+if [ -n "$MAP_ELEMENT" ]; then
+    if ! PKGS=$(pkg-map --element $MAP_ELEMENT $@); then
+        echo "bin/pkg-map error. $PKGS"
+        exit 1
     fi
 fi
+
+if [ -z "${PKGS}" ]; then
+    echo "Not running install-packages $ACTION with empty packages list"
+else
+    run_zypper $ACTION $EXTRA_ARGS $PKGS
+fi
diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/map-packages b/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/map-packages
deleted file mode 100755
index 1e2f5428..00000000
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/map-packages
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,68 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# dib-lint: disable=indent
-# dib-lint indent requirements causes issue with pep8
-
-# Copyright 2013 SUSE Linux Products GmbH
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-# a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-from __future__ import print_function
-import sys
-
-# Manually maintained for brevity; consider making this compiled from
-# distromatch or other rich data sources.
-# Debian name on the left, openSUSE on the right.
-package_map = {
-    'arping': 'iputils',
-    'augeas-tools': 'augeas',
-    'build-essential': 'make automake gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel',
-    'default-jre': 'java',
-    'extlinux': 'syslinux',
-    'grub-pc': 'grub2',
-    'libapache2-mod-wsgi': 'apache2-mod_wsgi',
-    'libc6-dev': 'glibc-devel',
-    'libffi-dev': 'libffi-devel',
-    'libmysql-java': 'mysql-connector-java',
-    'libmysqlclient-dev': 'libmysqlclient-devel',
-    'libssl-dev': 'openssl-devel',
-    'libvirt-bin': 'libvirt',
-    'libxml2-dev': 'libxml2-devel',
-    'libxslt-dev': 'libxslt-devel',
-    'libz-dev': 'zlib-devel',
-    'linux-image-generic': 'kernel-default',
-    'mysql-client-5.5': 'mariadb-client',
-    'mysql-server-5.5': 'mariadb',
-    'openjdk-7-jre-headless': 'java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless',
-    'openssh-client': 'openssh',
-    'openvswitch-common': 'openvswitch',
-    'openvswitch-datapath-dkms': 'openvswitch-kmp',
-    'openvswitch-switch': 'openvswitch-switch',
-    'python-dev': 'python-devel',
-    'python-libvirt': 'libvirt-python',
-    'python-memcache': 'python-python-memcached',
-    'python-mysqldb': 'python-mysql',
-    'python-pyopenssl': 'python-pyOpenSSL',
-    'qemu-utils': 'qemu-tools',
-    'tftpd-hpa': 'tftp',
-    # openstack related package remappings
-    'openstack-heat-common': 'openstack-heat',
-    'openstack-neutron-ml2': 'openstack-neutron',
-    'openstack-neutron-openvswitch': 'openstack-neutron-openvswitch-agent',
-}
-
-print("WARNING: map-packages is deprecated.  Please use the pkg-map element.",
-      file=sys.stderr)
-
-for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
-    print(package_map.get(arg, arg))
-sys.exit(0)
diff --git a/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/map-services b/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/map-services
deleted file mode 100755
index 76162e0f..00000000
--- a/diskimage_builder/elements/zypper/bin/map-services
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-# dib-lint: disable=indent
-# Copyright 2012 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
-# Copyright 2014 SUSE, Inc.
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
-# not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain
-# a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
-# WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
-# License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-
-from __future__ import print_function
-import os
-import sys
-
-# Manually maintained for brevity; consider making this compiled from
-# distromatch or other rich data sources.
-# Debian name on the left, openSUSE on the right.
-service_map = {
-    # openstack mapping
-    'cinder-api': 'openstack-cinder-api',
-    'cinder-backup': 'openstack-cinder-backup',
-    'cinder-scheduler': 'openstack-cinder-scheduler',
-    'cinder-volume': 'openstack-cinder-volume',
-    'glance-api': 'openstack-glance-api',
-    'glance-reg': 'openstack-glance-registry',
-    'heat-api-cfn': 'openstack-heat-api-cfn',
-    'heat-api-cloudwatch': 'openstack-heat-api-cloudwatch',
-    'heat-api': 'openstack-heat-api',
-    'heat-engine': 'openstack-heat-engine',
-    'keystone': 'openstack-keystone',
-    'libvirt-bin': 'libvirtd',
-    'neutron-dhcp-agent': 'openstack-neutron-dhcp-agent',
-    'neutron-openvswitch-agent': 'openstack-neutron-openvswitch-agent',
-    'neutron-l3-agent': 'openstack-neutron-l3-agent',
-    'neutron-metadata-agent': 'openstack-neutron-metadata-agent',
-    'neutron-ovs-cleanup': 'openstack-neutron-ovs-cleanup',
-    'neutron-server': 'openstack-neutron',
-    'nova-api': 'openstack-nova-api',
-    'nova-cert': 'openstack-nova-cert',
-    'nova-compute': 'openstack-nova-compute',
-    'nova-conductor': 'openstack-nova-conductor',
-    'nova-consoleauth': 'openstack-nova-console',
-    'nova-baremetal-deploy-helper': 'openstack-nova-baremetal-deploy-helper',
-    'nova-novncproxy': 'openstack-nova-novncproxy',
-    'nova-scheduler': 'openstack-nova-scheduler',
-}
-
-print("WARNING: map-services has been deprecated.  "
-      "Please use the svc-map element.", file=sys.stderr)
-
-for arg in sys.argv[1:]:
-    # We need to support the service name being different when installing from
-    # source vs. packages. So, if the requested service file already exists,
-    # just use that.
-    if os.path.exists('/usr/lib/systemd/system/%s.service' % arg):
-        print(arg)
-    else:
-        print(service_map.get(arg, arg))
-sys.exit(0)