On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:25:38AM -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > [nbecker@nbecker2 ~]$ sudo dnf repoquery --whatrequires plexmediaserver > [nbecker@nbecker2 ~]$ sudo dnf remove plexmediaserver [...] > ... a list of 438 packages!! > Why would dnf want to remove them?!?
It thinks that these packages were only installed to resolve plexmediaserver dependencies in the first place. The intention is that `dnf install plexmediaserver` and `dnf remove plexmediaserver` should be inverse operations, without the side-effect of leaving a bunch of packages plexmediaserver pulled in as dependencies installed even though you no longer need them. Although this is finally fixed, there was a long-standing lack of communicationb between DNF and PackageKit which may result in packages which were deliberately installed not being marked as such. See `dnf repoquery --userinstalled` to list packages marked as manually/intentionally installed. Use `dnf mark install packagename` to mark something as something you want to not be autoremoved. Or `dnf mark install *`. Use `dnf remove plexmediaserver --noautoremove` to remove plexmediaserver without trying to be smart about unused dependencies now. Set `clean_requirements_on_remove` to False in dnf.conf to disable this behavior entirely. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
