On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
If that's the case, I think these two approaches are *basically* identical,
except that the metapackage approach will probably cause DNF to misbehave
due to
the "clean_requirements_on_remove=true" default configuration (which
might cause
it to try to remove a bunch of other packages that were installed at the
same
time as 'perl'.
In my opinion, this is merely an example of why the "
clean_requirements_on_remove=true" default is problematic. But I won't
rehash that discussion here.
-Dan