Re: dnf still is unuseable

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Am Montag, den 18.01.2016, 07:05 -0500 schrieb Honza Šilhan:
> > From: "James Hogarth" <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx>
> > The autoremove reference might be the well known issue with
> > packagekit, not
> > dnf, that is not marking packages as installed rather than
> > dependencies.
> > 
> > The default dnf configuration is autoremove so that doesn't then
> > know that
> > have been specifically installed rather than just unneeded
> > dependencies of
> > something else and then helpfully tries to remove them...
> > 
> > Note this is a result of a packagekit bug not dnf.
> > 
> > On a side note it'd be nice if pk just called out to dnf so that
> > they have a
> > common backend which would prevent behaviour like this and would
> > result in
> > sharing a history database as well.
> 
> yes, autoremoval issue could be either caused by bad packaging [1] or
> when you are
> installing packages via yum or packagekit [2]. We are working on
> better integration
> between DNF and PK so this could be fixed soon. At the meantime use
> this workaround [3].
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1222812#c23
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259865
> [3] http://dnf.baseurl.org/2015/10/26/mark-command-usecase/

That workaround is only useable if you know what packages you've
installed via PK but because this issue exists nearly since a year that
could be hard to remember what pacakges were installed via PK.
-- 
Regards,

Heiko Adams

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