On 06/15/2017 08:13 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > On Thursday, 15 June 2017 at 20:05, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >> 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). > > No, actually it does try to pull in any missing Recommends:. That's why > I have to add -x trousers to every dnf update I do. dnf keeps trying to > install it each time. >
That's definitely a bug; it's not supposed to be doing that. Have you filed a BZ? (And are you certain that something else isn't trying to Requires: it?)
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