https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805779
--- Comment #12 from Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> ---
Hadn't noticed that bug, that is annoying. IIRC, though, it always used to work
that way, and querying by provides as well as literal name is a fairly recent
feature, so I always used to hack up a little bash something like this:
for i in `dnf repoquery --provides foo`; do echo "PROVIDES $i"; dnf repoquery
--whatrequires "$i"; done
untested and it probably has a mistake in it somewhere, but you get the idea
anyway :)
BTW, there's I think one more reason to have the Provides: to ensure the
package actually gets installed on upgrade. I haven't checked to be sure, but
IIRC if 'new-foo' only Obsoletes 'old-foo' but doesn't Provides it,
when you do
an upgrade, it's not actually guaranteed that 'new-foo' will be installed to
replace 'old-foo', it'll only happen if 'new-foo' is pulled into the
transaction for some other reason.
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