On 12/02/2015 04:44 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
On 12/02/2015 02:42 PM, David Tardon wrote:
On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 02:20:34AM -0500, 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".
Why? Remove is the opposite of install. "dnf install foo" will install
package foo _and_ all its dependencies. So it is only logical that
"dnf remove foo" should remove package foo _and_ all its (unneeded)
dependencies.
Maybe it is not so simple.
There are dependencies with no use apart the main tool (tool requires tool-libs),
but in some cases the dependency is useful on its own (e.g. fonts).
So, I counter your reasoning with this:
- dnf install foo (also installs bar)
- dnf install bar (oops, already installed, good)
- dnf remove foo (wow, why did it remove bar, I explicitly "installed" it yesterday!)
Is dnf able to recognize that bar was "wanted" and not "accidental"?
http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/command_ref.html#mark-command-label
- Panu -
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