On 10/16/17, Dan Book <gri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 03:20:09AM +0200, Radka Janekova wrote:
>> > so recently I managed to destroy[1] two production servers by removing
>> what
>> > I saw as useless web-config utility. Apparently Cockpit depends on
>> > NetworkManager, which nobody would expect and is easily overlooked.
>> > PLEASE FIX
>>
>> I think the bug here is that DNF is being over-zealous. NetworkManager
>> does not require Cockpit, but Cockpit requires NetworkManager. For some
>> reason, DNF thinks that Cockpit is the *only* reason NetworkManager is
>> installed, and "helpfully" decides to remove it.
>
>
> This is clean_requirements_on_remove being helpful as usual. Never should
> have been a default setting as I've argued before, and the first thing I
> disable in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf.
> http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/conf_ref.html#clean-requirements-on-remove-label

+1.

-- 

Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng

http://awk.io
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