I have run into this before and it was very confusing, it really should be
a separate command from remove for when you actually want to remove what
dnf thinks is now "unused".
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 1:38 AM, Panu Matilainen <pmatilai(a)laiskiainen.org>
wrote:
On 12/01/2015 07:02 AM, Christopher wrote:
> What's the deal with libreoffice packages being a dependency for so many
> system library packages?
>
> I try to `sudo dnf remove libreoffice\*` and it grabs a bunch of
> surprising
> packages with it, including some fonts and system libraries. Granted, I
> don't think I need any of these things, so it's probably safe to uninstall
> them, but it is surprising that so many packages depend on libreoffice
> packages. I'd normally expect the dependencies to be the other way around
> (libreoffice-* depending on system libraries some basic fonts, while other
> fonts are independent or have only optional dependencies on LibreOffice).
>
> I don't need or want an offline office suite (it's huge, and takes up
> bandwidth during updates). I don't mind uninstalling it after a fresh
> install, but it is surprising how much goes with it.
>
http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cli_vs_yum.html#clean-requirements-o...
http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/conf_ref.html#clean-requirements-on-...
Its not that system libraries depend on libreoffice but libreoffice being
the sole user of those libraries, and dnf offering to remove the otherwise
unused cruft along with it.
- Panu -
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