On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 12:02:40PM -0400, Dan Book wrote: > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Jorge Gallegos <kad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I found out the Cinnamon Desktop group is behaving like Hotel > California. I had ``dnf group install "Cinnamon Desktop"`` some time in > the past, and was trying to cleanup now after finishing fiddling with > it. It turns out that Cinnamon Desktop's dependencies somehow bind to > protected dependencies, i.e. > > ``` > [root@ragnia ~]# dnf group remove "Cinnamon Desktop" > Last metadata expiration check: 2:18:50 ago on Mon May 8 07:18:18 2017. > Dependencies resolved. > Error: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf, systemd, systemd-udev. > ``` > > Is this intended? A cursory search in bugz turns out no real results, > but wanted to make sure if maybe I am missing something here, if not I > will be opening a new bug. > > > Try setting clean_requirements_on_remove=False in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. See http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > conf_ref.html#main-options This appears to have no effect on dnf group operations? ``` [root@ragnia ~]# dnf --setopt "clean_requirements_on_remove=False" group remove "Cinnamon Desktop" Last metadata expiration check: 2:25:11 ago on Wed May 10 10:42:51 2017. Dependencies resolved. Error: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf, systemd-udev, systemd. ``` I tried editing /etc/dnf/dnf.conf as well with the same results > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- ~kad
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