I've decided I'm unhappy with one of the changes made by the most recent version of LibreOffice, 24.8, and I want to try going back to the previous version, 24.2, which is part of the FC40 repository. But I'm astounded by the result of the command below. (Without allowerasing the command won't do anything.)
dnf downgrade --allowerasing --enable-repo=fedora40,updates40 \ libreoffice-24.2.2.1-3.fc40.x86_64 ... Transaction Summary: Installing: 21 packages Upgrading: 8 packages Replacing: 1169 packages Removing: 13 packages Downgrading: 1161 packages
This is effectively returning to FC40, not just downgrading a single package. Of course, I didn't follow through.
But somehow DNF thinks the following packages are dependent on LibreOffice: mplayer, opencv, python3-crypt-r, tesseract-libs, x264, among others! And it thinks the removal of these packages requires downgrading others, including mod-perl!
I suppose I can simply download the older LibreOffice packages and then use rpm to replace them. But there could be some authentic library dependencies. Is there a better solution?