I have run into this before and it was very confusing, it really should be a separate command from remove for when you actually want to remove what dnf thinks is now "unused".
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cli_vs_yum.html#clean-requirements-on-remove-on-by-defaultOn 12/01/2015 07:02 AM, Christopher wrote:
What's the deal with libreoffice packages being a dependency for so many
system library packages?
I try to `sudo dnf remove libreoffice\*` and it grabs a bunch of surprising
packages with it, including some fonts and system libraries. Granted, I
don't think I need any of these things, so it's probably safe to uninstall
them, but it is surprising that so many packages depend on libreoffice
packages. I'd normally expect the dependencies to be the other way around
(libreoffice-* depending on system libraries some basic fonts, while other
fonts are independent or have only optional dependencies on LibreOffice).
I don't need or want an offline office suite (it's huge, and takes up
bandwidth during updates). I don't mind uninstalling it after a fresh
install, but it is surprising how much goes with it.
http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/conf_ref.html#clean-requirements-on-remove-label
Its not that system libraries depend on libreoffice but libreoffice being the sole user of those libraries, and dnf offering to remove the otherwise unused cruft along with it.
- Panu -
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