# dnf autoremove On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 8:21 AM Dan Book <gri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 >> > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org -- -Igor Gnatenko
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