On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 3:02 AM, Petr Spacek <pspacek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 1.12.2015 08:20, Dan Book wrote:
> 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".
Maybe it would help if these auto-removed packages are clearly marked as such
in summary printed by DNF.
Currently the output looks like this:
$ dnf remove ekiga
Dependencies resolved.
=============================================================
Removing:
ekiga x86_64 4.0.1-17.fc22 @fedora 19 M
evolution-data-server x86_64 3.16.5-1.fc22 @updates 14 M
geocode-glib x86_64 3.16.2-1.fc22 @fedora 160 k
gnome-online-accounts x86_64 3.16.4.1-1.fc22 @updates 4.0 M
libgdata x86_64 0.17.3-1.fc22 @updates 1.7 M
... and so on
It would be easier to understand if it printed:
$ dnf remove ekiga
Dependencies resolved.
=============================================================
Removing:
ekiga x86_64 4.0.1-17.fc22 @fedora 19 M
Removing unused dependencies:
evolution-data-server x86_64 3.16.5-1.fc22 @updates 14 M
geocode-glib x86_64 3.16.2-1.fc22 @fedora 160 k
gnome-online-accounts x86_64 3.16.4.1-1.fc22 @updates 4.0 M
libgdata x86_64 0.17.3-1.fc22 @updates 1.7 M
... and so on
Petr^2 Spacek
This would be a great improvement indeed.
-Dan
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> On 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/cli_vs_yum.html#clean-requirements-on-remove-on-by-default
>>
>> 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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