diff --git a/patterns-base.changes b/patterns-base.changes
index 5193c90..d0d60d2 100644
--- a/patterns-base.changes
+++ b/patterns-base.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu May 28 08:22:09 UTC 2020 - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
+
+- Suggest xz in base, as it is now required by aaa_base and we don't
+  want that zypper uses busybox instead [bsc#1172209]
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu May  7 09:19:47 UTC 2020 - Fabian Vogt <fvogt@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/patterns-base.spec b/patterns-base.spec
index 39aab69..75b02ae 100644
--- a/patterns-base.spec
+++ b/patterns-base.spec
@@ -156,7 +156,6 @@ Recommends:     terminfo-iterm
 Recommends:     terminfo-screen
 Recommends:     timezone
 Recommends:     glibc-locale-base
-
 # Current systems suffer from entropy starvation (bsc#1131369)
 %ifarch aarch64 %ix86 x86_64 ppc64 ppc64le s390x
 Recommends:     haveged
@@ -165,6 +164,7 @@ Recommends:     haveged
 %if !(0%{?is_opensuse} && 0%{?sle_version})
 Recommends:     issue-generator
 %endif
+Suggests:       xz
 
 %description base
 This is the base runtime system.  It contains only a minimal multiuser booting system. For running on real hardware, you need to add additional packages and pattern to make this pattern useful on its own.