On 7 Oct 2021, at 18:38, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On 10/5/21 16:36, Barry wrote:
>> On 5 Oct 2021, at 19:41, Ian Pilcher <arequipeno(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I use systemd-boot, so I try to avoid having unneeded GRUB packages
>> installed. When I run dnf update, grub2-tools-efi and grub2-tools-extra
>> get installed, even though they aren't required by any of my other
>> installed packages.
>>
>> I already have install_weak_deps=False set in dnf.conf.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea why DNF is installing these packages?
> Try dnf remove package and see what dnf wants to remove.
> Just answer no so that dns does no damage.
> That’s the trick I used to find out why a package is needed.
> You can also do rpm queries, but I do recall the incantation.
That's the mystery. 'dnf remove' happily removes them (which is what I
want), so it appears that *nothing* requires these packages, so why is
'dnf update' installing them?
I removed grub2-tools-extra and did an update. And its back as you said.
But I noticed that other grub files updated at the same time.
I repeated the remove and then the dnf update --refresh did not put it back.
Indeed odd that it sometimes comes back. I ran the rpm -q --what* commands
and grub2-tools-extra is not listed for anything.
Clearly is not a protected package as they cannot be removed at all.
Barry
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