Re: dnf still is unuseable

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On Seg, 2016-01-18 at 07:37 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Jonathan Wakely
> <jwakely@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 18/01/16 07:05 -0500, Honza Šilhan wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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].
> > 
> > 
> > It's a *terrible* workaround though. "Make a note of everything
> > that
> > gets installed using PK and then as root run dnf to mark them as
> > userinstalled". A better workaround is "Don't use PK to install
> > things, use DNF". Why bother using PK at all if you then have to go
> > and run DNF commands for the same packages? You might as well just
> > use
> > DNF.
> > 
> 
> Honestly, I wonder why we didn't just have PackageKit have a DNF
> backend directly, instead.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256108

except that don't found any bug . 

>  It seems like we created some very weird
> problems by having two independent package managers that can't even
> talk to each other. Maybe we should just tell people to use yumex-
> dnf,
> since it just calls DNF APIs through dnfdaemon, and I believe those
> transactions remain in sync.
> 
> Doing things like having PK shell out to call dnf mark just makes
> things really odd.



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Sérgio M. B.

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