On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 12:06 PM Fabio Valentini <decathorpe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019, 18:03 Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2019-06-04 at 15:53 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> > * Neal Gompa: >> > >> > > On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 9:30 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > > Is there a form of weak dependency which is installed when available, >> > > > but not automatically re-installed on each update? >> > > > >> > > > If all the optional components are back after an update, that means that >> > > > it's quite hard to maintain a minimal system installation. >> > > > >> > > >> > > This feature is not yet wired up in DNF. We have all the information >> > > we need to make those kinds of decisions, but it currently isn't >> > > accounted for. I discussed this with Daniel Mach at openSUSE >> > > Conference and he's aware that it's possible and some work could be >> > > done to support this depending on demand for the feature. >> > >> > Does it sense to reopen bug 1699672, in light of this development? >> >> As a side note, if your goal is "to maintain a minimal system >> installation", perhaps what you might want is to be able to configure >> dnf to simply *never* install weak (Recommends) or very weak (Suggests) >> dependencies. IIRC, this is configurable on SUSE - you can set this as >> permanent package manager configuration. I'm not sure if it is in DNF, >> but if not, perhaps it could be? > > > There is: > > --setopt=install_weak_deps=False > The option can also be set in dnf.conf (--setopt= maps to options that you can set there. :) ) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
