Re: F18 DNF and history

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 05:09:17PM -0400, James Antill wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 09:56 +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > Then the curious minds ask ... why clean_requirements_on_remove = 1 
> > isn't a default?
> 
>  The main two main reasons we didn't just turn it on when written are:
> 
> 1. New code in a pretty critical operation, needs to be tested a bunch
> first.
> 
> 2. Lots of people would have installed packages without a reason set.
> 
> ...both of which should be gone now, so we could turn it on by default
> in F18.

I turned this on in my yum.conf and this is the first upgrade where yum
offered to remove packages.  You'll want to be careful how packages are
specified during the install: the latest upgrade of dracut no longer
requires plymouth.  Since nothing else does, yum was offering to
uninstall it for me--until I changed its reason.

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Scott Schmit

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