----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno@xxxxxxxx> > To: "Radek Holy" <rholy@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 11:20:02 PM > Subject: Re: Thank God for yum-deprecated :-) > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 11:32:58 -0400, > Radek Holy <rholy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >Right, it still does not allow the depsolver to remove a capability at all. > >It allows it only to replace a package which provides a required capability > >with another package which provides it as well. > > Can you describe this more precisely? Packages still provide themselves > and the installed files and these don't seem to be locked down. Is this > limited to explicit provides? And/or perhaps the automatic soname provides? > Hm, it seems that I was too tired yesterday :( It really allows the solver to remove any package in order to fulfil the given request. Sorry for the noise :( If it does not work in some cases, I believe we can collaborate with libsolv authors to find out the reason. The most precise description is that it sets the SOLVER_FLAG_ALLOW_UNINSTALL flag which is described here: https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/blob/master/doc/libsolv-bindings.txt#L2024 Sorry :( -- Radek Holý Associate Software Engineer Software Management Team Red Hat Czech -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org