I have run into this before and it was very confusing, it really should be a separate command from remove for when you actually want to remove what dnf thinks is now "unused".
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmati...@laiskiainen.org> wrote: > On 12/01/2015 07:02 AM, Christopher wrote: > >> What's the deal with libreoffice packages being a dependency for so many >> system library packages? >> >> I try to `sudo dnf remove libreoffice\*` and it grabs a bunch of >> surprising >> packages with it, including some fonts and system libraries. Granted, I >> don't think I need any of these things, so it's probably safe to uninstall >> them, but it is surprising that so many packages depend on libreoffice >> packages. I'd normally expect the dependencies to be the other way around >> (libreoffice-* depending on system libraries some basic fonts, while other >> fonts are independent or have only optional dependencies on LibreOffice). >> >> I don't need or want an offline office suite (it's huge, and takes up >> bandwidth during updates). I don't mind uninstalling it after a fresh >> install, but it is surprising how much goes with it. >> > > > http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cli_vs_yum.html#clean-requirements-on-remove-on-by-default > > http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/conf_ref.html#clean-requirements-on-remove-label > > Its not that system libraries depend on libreoffice but libreoffice being > the sole user of those libraries, and dnf offering to remove the otherwise > unused cruft along with it. > > - Panu - > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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