On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 03:35:46PM +0200, Igor Gnatenko wrote: > > > > What does "Recommends" do on upgrade? > > > > > > > > In other words if Recommends was used and a new perl version had > > > > new modules in > > > > the core package would an upgrade of perl pull them in as you > > > > would expect? > > > > > > > > I don't see how it can unless it also reinstalls ones the user > > > > had chosen to > > > > remove? > > > > > > You are correct, on upgrade it only updates packages currently on > > > the system. It > > > won't install new ones (except to satisfy new dependencies for > > > existing packages). > > > > No, actually it does try to pull in any missing Recommends:. That's > > why > > I have to add -x trousers to every dnf update I do. dnf keeps trying > > to > > install it each time. > > Ah, it's a feature. Anyway, it's pretty impossible to fix. > > The problem is that there is no information why bash-completion is not > installed. Is it because it was not available in the repos before? Or > it was not installable because some other installed packages conflicted > with it? Or some dependency could not be met at the time? Or the user > installed dnf with weak deps disabled? Or it was installed and got > deinstalled? > > So we simply don't know what the reason is. Just ignoring the > Recommends is as wrong as installing it. Add the package to your > exclude list if you don't want to have it installed. (Or disfavor list > at some point in dnf's future...) > > This is possible to fix on DNF's end, but it is complicated to > implement. So if you really want to have minimal system, set > install_weak_deps=false in dnf.conf and use -- > setopt=install_weak_deps=true when installing packages. Incidentally, with deb packages, the package database retains knowledge of uninstalled packages. I'd wondered why that was, but purhaps it's used for cases like this. If that's the case, it doesn't seem all that difficult for RPM (or DNF) to do the same. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
