On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:52 AM, James Hogarth <james.hoga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 Jan 2016 06:33, "Igor Gnatenko" <i.gnatenko.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I hope Heiko Adams and Reindl Harald should co-operate and write usable
>> and bug free package manager.
>>
>> Related to topic: Please prepare full list of bugs which you think
>> critical for you and write to each how to reproduce it.
>>
>> P.S. autoremove works here fine (fresh 23).
>>
>
> The autoremove reference might be the well known issue with packagekit, not
> dnf, that is not marking packages as installed rather than dependencies.
>
> The default dnf configuration is autoremove so that doesn't then know that
> have been specifically installed rather than just unneeded dependencies of
> something else and then helpfully tries to remove them...
>
> Note this is a result of a packagekit bug not dnf.
>
> On a side note it'd be nice if pk just called out to dnf so that they have a
> common backend which would prevent behaviour like this and would result in
> sharing a history database as well.
>
>

Or at least wrote information to a common database so that all the
information is synchronized[0].

Note that with hawkey now merged into libhif, DNF will be using
libhif, which makes it even more silly that PackageKit-Hif and DNF
still don't keep each other in sync.

[0]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167239



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