On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 09:07 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Does --allowerasing only remove the offending package or does it also > remove everything that has a dependency on that package as well? I've > had similar sorts of conflicts with "freeworld" packages, so I've > manually removed the freeworld package first, but I have also been in > the situation where I've left things alone because the manual package > removal wanted to remove half my system. Since removing everything that offends it is how DNF likes to work, I don't see that behaviour is going to change if you use it with allowerasing, as well. This is why you don't add "-y" to the command, you want to see what it intends to do then allow or abort. ...[removing one thing wants to remove almost everything]... > I just tried it now and the issue seems to have been fixed in that > it only wanted to remove 3 additional packages, one of which is > mozilla-openh264