On 06/15/2017 02:02 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: > On 15/06/17 18:27, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > >> I think you may misunderstand what "Recommends" means. At install-time, it >> will >> still be pulled into the system as if it was a "Requires:". The difference is >> that if someone later decides to do 'dnf remove perl-foo', it can be removed >> without also removing the main 'perl' package (which is what would happen if >> it >> is a full "requires"). > > What does "Recommends" do on upgrade? > > In other words if Recommends was used and a new perl version had new modules > in > the core package would an upgrade of perl pull them in as you would expect? > > I don't see how it can unless it also reinstalls ones the user had chosen to > remove? >
You are correct, on upgrade it only updates packages currently on the system. It won't install new ones (except to satisfy new dependencies for existing packages). So yeah, that's another point in favor of the metapackage approach, I suppose.
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