On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Jorge Gallegos <kad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This appears to have no effect on dnf group operations?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
```
[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
Try `dnf group remove cinnamon-desktop` or Cinnamon -- "Cinnamon Desktop" may be trying to remove the environment group cinnamon-desktop-environment which includes the whole base system.
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