Re: What should we do about the "Install only newly recommended packages on upgrades" F36 change?

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On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 03:01:43PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-02-07 at 15:17 +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> > 
> > The change owner proposed 4 options to move forward. I understand them as follows:
> > 
> > 1. do nothing, keep it broken
> > 2. disable this behavior by default, keep it optional, but keep it broken
> > 3. do not ignore already broken weak rich deps (partially reverts the change)
> > 4. change the behavior on dynamically depending on the dnf command used 
> > (discouraged)
> 
> It's not clear to me whether any of these choices maps to "revert the
> Change and do exactly what F35 and earlier did", but on principle, that
> is the correct choice if no other choice is an improvement. It is not
> useful to change to a new behavior which is no better than the old
> behavior. If the Change can't be implemented as planned, ideally no
> change should happen at all.

Option 2. is that. The code to support this has been merged in libsolv and
dnf, so it's easier to return to status quo ante by flipping the default, then
to fully undo all changes.

Zbyszek
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