On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 08:26:02PM +0200, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
> Today I found[1] that the grub* and shim* packages are now protected
> in Fedora 34 and cannot be removed by dnf. I think this change
> should be reverted before the F34 release, because some users don't
> use Grub at all.
Protected doesn't mean that it's impossible to remove -- you can change the
DNF protected_packages option temporarily, or simply
rm /etc/dnf/protected.d/{shim,grub2*}.conf
before removing them. That's an extra step for an edge case, which I think
is okay given the benefit for the general case.
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fedora Project Leader
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