Tomasz Torcz <to...@pipebreaker.pl> writes: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 01:56:11PM -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote: >> Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> writes: >> >> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 12:36:15PM +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote: >> >>> As package maintainers we all make technical decisions which have >> >>> significant impact on our users every day - whether that's in the >> >>> choice of defaults, choice of build flags, or whatever. Honestly >> >>> delivering as modules-vs-non-modules is a completely trivial issue >> >>> compared to most of the stuff I spend time on. If "yum install X" >> >>> still works most people just don't care about the RPM/dnf/repo >> >>> mechanics behind that. >> >> >> >> Except it works only half way. The installation works. Later, >> >> dependencies are broken. Upgrades are broken. "yum remove X" does not >> >> undo the action completely. >> >> >> >> The main issue is: user just enabled a module without doing it >> >> explicitly. The user needs to know how to handle modules in order to >> >> recover. >> > >> > I never expect "yum remove X" to be the inverse of "yum install >> > X". DNF's magical leaf tracking makes it a bit more so, but not >> > exactly. So, I don't think we should make that a very high priority >> > concern (although if we can improve it, so much the better). >> >> I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation, especially for those >> coming from APT land (Debian, Ubuntu) where `apt install foo` *is* the >> inverse operation of `apt remove foo`. > > It isn't, you need to supplement it with `apt autoremove` to get rid > of auto-installed dependencies. > We have `dnf history undo X` to invert installation command.
Ah, you're right. It is the case with aptitude, but not with apt or apt-get. Sorry for the noise. Thanks, --Robbie
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