Build root prepared by DNF is way larger

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 18 18:54:05 UTC 2015


On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 04:52:10PM +0200, Michael Šimáček wrote:
> >>Today, I noticed that mock build root prepared by DNF is significantly
> >>larger then prepared by YUM (see attached logs). Owners of packages
[...]
> The cause might be soft dependencies. dnf installs Recommends, while
> yum ignores them. I think some packages in base buildroot are
> already using them (gdb).

Hmmm. I think that for the buildroot case, we probably want DNF to
_not_ installer Recommended packages.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader


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