[Discuss] How to permanently remove Linux package from installation

[edwardp at linuxmail.org]

giflib and imlib2 are image-related, so I kept those installed. 
python2-pyxdg is related to freedesktop.org, so I also kept that one.

In removing openbox-libs (which was still installed), dnf also wanted to 
remove obconf, which is a graphical configuration editor for openbox. 
That was also removed with openbox-libs, so I hope this takes care of 
the issue.


On 02/05/2017 01:19 PM, edwardp at linuxmail.org wrote:
> Upon running dnf to install openbox on another system, it wants to 
> install:
>
> giflib
> imlib2
> openbox
> openbox-libs
> python2-pyxdg
>
> giflib, like openbox (and -libs), was not built for Fedora 25. I will 
> check the system in question to see if any of these other packages are 
> installed, then remove them if present. That (I hope) will take care 
> of this issue.
>
>
>
>
> On 02/04/2017 06:20 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Perhaps openbox requires cinnamon and nothing else does? The dnf 
>> would consider it a non-necessary package and remove it.  You can 
>> remove it and then re-install?
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>>
>> ----- Reply message -----
>> From: edwardp at linuxmail.org
>> To: <discuss at blu.org>
>> Subject: [Discuss] How to permanently remove Linux package from 
>> installation
>> Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2017 6:17 PM
>>
>> It wants to remove openbox, along with 15 other packages.
>>
>> Cinnamon apparently doesn't require it, as I have that also installed
>> on a laptop (although 32-bit) and openbox is not installed on it.
>>
>> Removing:
>>   arc-theme                noarch    20161119-3.fc25 @updates         
>> 2.3 M
>>   cinnamon                 x86_64    3.2.8-9.fc25 @updates         7.6 M
>>   cinnamon-session         x86_64    3.2.0-1.fc25 @updates         989 k
>>   imsettings-cinnamon      x86_64    1.7.2-1.fc25 @@commandline    517 k
>>   mint-x-icons             noarch    1.4.0-2.fc25 @updates          95 M
>>   mint-y-icons             noarch    1.0.4-1.fc25 @updates          17 M
>>   openbox                  x86_64    3.6.1-2.fc24 @fedora          995 k
>>   python-beautifulsoup4    noarch    4.5.3-1.fc25 @updates         741 k
>>   python-html5lib          noarch    1:0.999-9.fc25 @@commandline    
>> 1.2 M
>>   python2-cssselect        noarch    0.9.2-1.fc25 @@commandline    158 k
>>   python2-inotify          noarch    0.9.6-6.fc25 @@commandline    264 k
>>   python2-lxml             x86_64    3.7.2-1.fc25 @updates         3.4 M
>>   tint2                    x86_64    0.12.12-1.fc25 @@commandline    
>> 1.2 M
>>   xawtv                    x86_64    3.103-8.fc24 @fedora          2.0 M
>>   xorg-x11-fonts-misc      noarch    7.5-16.fc24 @fedora          6.8 M
>>   zvbi                     x86_64    0.2.35-1.fc24 @fedora          
>> 1.3 M
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 18:10:31 -0500
>> "Derek Atkins" <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>>
>> > What happens when you "dnf erase .." the package?
>> >
>> > -derek
>> >
>> > Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
>> >
>> > ----- Reply message -----
>> > From: edwardp at linuxmail.org
>> > To: <discuss at blu.org>
>> > Subject: [Discuss] How to permanently remove Linux package from
>> > installation Date: Sat, Feb 4, 2017 5:55 PM
>> >
>> > Under Fedora, I previously tried out the LXDE desktop, then
>> > subsequently removed it. One of the packages it used, openbox,
>> > remained on the system and repeated attempts to remove this package,
>> > have not resulted in its permanent removal. I should note that
>> > openbox was never built for Fedora 25 and dnf installs the Fedora 24
>> > package.
>> >
>> > I located a couple of other LXDE-related packages that had remained on
>> > the system, once removed along with openbox, the package was not
>> > installed again through subsequent system updates. However today,
>> > openbox again became listed and dnf installed it again.
>> >
>> > Is there a Linux command of some sort that will display the
>> > dependencies of a particular package? I would like to find out exactly
>> > what openbox requires and if no other installed package(s) requires
>> > the same, the intent is to remove them along with openbox.
>> >
>> > Thank you.
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