On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 08:10:16 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 13:43:28 +0200, Petr Stodulka wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I found now that the setup rpm is removable from the system,
>
> Clarify, please. What exactly have you found out? Have you found an update
> case where one of the package updater tools removed it actually?
>
> $ rpm -q --whatrequires setup
> rpcbind-0.2.4-7.rc2.fc26.x86_64
> shadow-utils-4.3.1-3.fc26.x86_64
>
> Whatever you've done, you would need to remove more packages before
> you could remove "setup".
>
> In case a tool like "dnf" has done it, I'd like to see the details,
> particularly the packages DNF used to replace setup and shadow-utils.
>
It doesn't replace it with anything, it just considers it okay to
remove from the system, because we don't have any protected packages
that depend on setup.
That doesn't make sense [yet]. It cannot remove it without breaking
existing dependencies. It would need to remove shadow-utils, too, for
example.