Hello, I noticed that when installing gparted, also (I think) rather unrelated packages like gnome-bluetooth, mutter, gdm, … will get installed, because they are listed as dependency. I don’t think this is correct. What would be the best place to report this?
And is there a way to prevent these dependencies from getting installed? I tried --setopt install_weak_deps=false but it didn’t help in this case. Thank you!
Do you have a polkit agent installed? Because PolicyKit-authentication-agent is a dependency of gparted and that may cause to try to install some polkit agent whose dependencies are the ones you listed above.
Good question
PolicyKit-authentication-agent is a feature name which can be provided by one of these packages.
gnome-shell
lxpolkit
lxqt-policykit
mate-polkit
polkit-gnome
polkit-kde
xfce-polkit
You should install the one matching your desktop environment.
Ok, this seems likely - I have installed a polkit-agent in the meantime, and now gparted does not have all those dependencies anymore. Is there a quick way I could see this “dependency tree” myself, so that in future situations I would know which package introduces all those dependencies? Thank you for your help
sudo dnf rq --deplist packagename
Produces a list of dependencies and what package provides them.
sudo dnf rq --requires packagename
Produces a list of the capabilities a package depends on
sudo dnf rq --requires packagename --resolve
adding --resolve, resolves the capaiblity to a package name.
Gparted isn’t the best GUI utility … try gnome-disk-utility with many features in top right corner button. LVM or BTRFS console command options go much further than Gparted with many online tips or simply man console command. A good ressource is Fedora Documentation : [Fedora Documentation :: Fedora Docs].