Bug 1391911

Summary:	[RFE] repoquery: get list of all dependent packages (with even soft dependencies)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pavel Raiskup <praiskup>
Component:	dnf-plugins-core	Assignee:	Jaroslav Mracek <jmracek>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dmach, jmracek, mmraka, packaging-team-maint, pmatilai, rpm-software-management, vmukhame
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Description Pavel Raiskup 2016-11-04 11:13:57 UTC

I was told there's '--whatrequires --alldeps' [1] option, but that doesn't
show the soft dependents.  It would be fine to have something which
covers also soft deps too.

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/7QAOXOWESPKAN4RT3FNMAOZL3KVQHRXG/

Comment 1 Michael Mráka 2016-11-10 09:05:36 UTC

A request to list all kind of dependencies seems to be very common.

After a discussion we've come up with a proposal to create --depends and --whatdepends options with a similar meaning as --requires/--whatrequires which will include all types of dependencies (hard, weak and very weak).

Comment 2 Pavel Raiskup 2016-11-10 13:05:44 UTC

FTR (I learned that today) there was a bug 84176 where 'rpm --whatdepends' was
also proposed (with a slightly different semantics).  CCing RPM maintainer as
implementing this option differently in RPM/DNF could cause confusion.

Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2016-11-11 07:11:46 UTC

The way I see it, --depends/whatdepends as a name for a selector for all the dependency variants seems remarkably sane. Never mind bug 84176, that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.

And like with --whatrequires etc, whether the dependency tokens are actually resolved to providing packages should be another switch (eg --alldeps/exactdeps or whatever the exact names were).

Comment 4 Honza Silhan 2016-11-14 12:12:36 UTC

ok, we will do that. Thanks for opinion

Comment 5 Jaroslav Mracek 2017-10-20 14:17:25 UTC

I created a patch (https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/960) that provides requested functionality.

Comment 6 Jaroslav Mracek 2018-06-28 08:28:48 UTC

The issue is solved by dnf-3.0.1-1 that was released into rawhide.