On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:09 PM, Jorge Gallegos <k...@blegh.net> wrote:
> On Mon, May 08, 2017 at 12:02:40PM -0400, Dan Book wrote: > > On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Jorge Gallegos <k...@blegh.net> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I found out the Cinnamon Desktop group is behaving like Hotel > > California. I had ``dnf group install "Cinnamon Desktop"`` some time > in > > the past, and was trying to cleanup now after finishing fiddling with > > it. It turns out that Cinnamon Desktop's dependencies somehow bind to > > protected dependencies, i.e. > > > > ``` > > [root@ragnia ~]# dnf group remove "Cinnamon Desktop" > > Last metadata expiration check: 2:18:50 ago on Mon May 8 07:18:18 > 2017. > > Dependencies resolved. > > Error: The operation would result in removing the following > protected packages: dnf, systemd, systemd-udev. > > ``` > > > > Is this intended? A cursory search in bugz turns out no real results, > > but wanted to make sure if maybe I am missing something here, if not > I > > will be opening a new bug. > > > > > > Try setting clean_requirements_on_remove=False in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf. > See http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > > conf_ref.html#main-options > > This appears to have no effect on dnf group operations? > > ``` > [root@ragnia ~]# dnf --setopt "clean_requirements_on_remove=False" group > remove "Cinnamon Desktop" > Last metadata expiration check: 2:25:11 ago on Wed May 10 10:42:51 2017. > Dependencies resolved. > Error: The operation would result in removing the following protected > packages: dnf, systemd-udev, systemd. > ``` > > I tried editing /etc/dnf/dnf.conf as well with the same results Try `dnf group remove cinnamon-desktop` or Cinnamon -- "Cinnamon Desktop" may be trying to remove the environment group cinnamon-desktop-environment which includes the whole base system.
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