DNF as default package manager

[Jan Zelený]

On 22. 1. 2015 at 15:06:34, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:33:31 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> > Dne 20.1.2015 v 14:22 Bohuslav Kabrda napsal(a):
> > > 1) DNF will be the default package manager for F22 [2], so everything is
> > > ok here.> 
> > I really wonder what is the state here. This is on my rawhide:
> > 
> > # dnf remove yum
> > 
> >  python3-chardet                 noarch 2.2.1-2.fc22              @System
> >  1.1 M python3-requests                noarch 2.5.0-3.fc22             
> >  @System 318 k python3-urllib3                 noarch 1.10-1.fc22        
> >        @System 341 k
> Is "dnf remove ..." any special and also removes requirements in addition to
> "yum"?
> 
> python3-chardet certainly does not depend on "yum" in any way.
> Same for the other Python 3 based packages in your list. I can only
> imagine they are on the list because they are dependencies by something
> else on that list. Not "yum" which is Python 2 based anyway.

I cannot be 100% sure but I think what you see is dnf performing autoremove 
automatically. Basically every transaction you perform will also clean orphan 
packages if there are any. This can be turned off in dnf.conf (the directive is 
called clean_requirements_on_remove).

Thanks
Jan