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Suggests DNF5 installation on 38+ again #1220
Suggests DNF5 installation on 38+ again #1220
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Actually, having DNF5 on Fedora 38 Mock **host** is still a good idea for the future when we'll be building Fedora 41 chroots. This reverts commit 8cca2d0.
FYI @evan-goode @j-mracek - mostly related to our today discussion that we should propose building of Fedora 41 chroots with dnf5 rather soon. |
Suggests doesn't do anything. You need to use Recommends instead if you want it to actually get installed. |
With the bootstrap image feature ON by default, it really isn't worth more than just Suggests? |
We don't have it on by default universally. |
That's true, the question is what to do about it. Do you have a proposal? :) My understanding is that users have to decide whether they prefer (a) bootstrap image, (b) any package manager (that is actually able to install bootstrap, aka bootstrap image off) or (c) a particular package manager version on the host. Pushing DNF5 installation on user's hosts doesn't seem so necessary considering that we already kinda push for (a). The image feature needs to settle down, but long term it is going to be the generally preferred variant, I believe. |
I think we should use Recommends for the package managers. If they don't want it, they can uninstall it and it won't come back again. |
Meh, this is really annoying. I'll need to add |
May I ask you what kind of problem you have with |
I don't have a problem with dnf5, but I don't like the kind of dependency bloat changes like these cause. I already have |
Actually, having DNF5 on Fedora 38 Mock host is still a good idea for the future when we'll be building Fedora 41 chroots.
This reverts commit 8cca2d0.