On 10/29/2015 08:33 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:

Am 29.10.2015 um 13:24 schrieb Honza Šilhan:

dnf has `--allowerasing switch - it will resolve the conflicts by uninstallation
of conflicting packages. Installing the packages regardless the dependencies by
`--force` is really dangerous and will not be supported by DNF.

removing random packages is also really dangerous and *not* acceptable
For what it's worth, in the YUM days few years back I had a botched update (not even upgrade!). I believe it was a 5.x Centos, and yum decided to delete a ton of packages. The system became unbootable, and I had to do a lot of manual yum installs including IIRC yum itself, to restore it. I didn't even file yum  bugs because that system has a rich history and a lot of odd software installed so I chalked it to 'self-inflicted', but:

    I learned to be very careful reading the lists of packages suggested for deletion.