Re: DNF could improve messages about package auto-removal

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On Fri, 2015-12-04 at 15:23 -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > 1) Some magic command to run after remove to remove the now unneeded
> > > cruft.
> > 
> >  The vast majority of users don't care about saving that $0.0001 of disk
> > space, so never need or want to run this and don't.
> 
> One would hope (assume?) that there's something to keep dnf from
> thinking I no longer need Firefox, or emacs, or some other big package
> just because nothing else depends on it any more.

 No. It doesn't have any more protections than were in yum.
 If the package yumdb entry (now dnfdb) says it was installed as a
dependency, and it's not depended on by a package that isn't, then it
can be removed.
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