On 12/19/24 2:07 PM, 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.
It will of course remove anything that has a dependency on the removed package that won't be supplied by the incoming packages.
An example of this is Firefox, Firefox seems to be installed by default as part of installing Fedora, but I used the upstream nightly version of Firefox, so I don't want the repository version installed, but if I tell dnf to uninstall it, that process wants to remove half my system. Sorry that comment is just noise, 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 and I don't know whether removing that will impact other packages that want to use the h264 protocol.
Look at what section the removed packages are under. I think the default is to also remove unneeded dependencies, but you can turn off that option if you want.
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