On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 09:07 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Does --allowerasing only remove the offending package or does it also > remove everything that has a dependency on that package as well? I've > had similar sorts of conflicts with "freeworld" packages, so I've > manually removed the freeworld package first, but I have also been in > the situation where I've left things alone because the manual package > removal wanted to remove half my system.
Since removing everything that offends it is how DNF likes to work, I don't see that behaviour is going to change if you use it with allowerasing, as well. This is why you don't add "-y" to the command, you want to see what it intends to do then allow or abort. ...[removing one thing wants to remove almost everything]... > I just tried it now and the issue seems to have been fixed in that > it only wanted to remove 3 additional packages, one of which is > mozilla-openh264 From time to time awful dependencies crop up that would trigger far too many other package removals, or require installing far more things than is sensible, then someone fixes it in some way. They make the dnf program better, change the dependencies of some packages, or split out an important feature into their own package. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
