The newly separated qcom-wwan-firmware package cannot be removed (or avoided) independently of linux-firmware, due to a Requires: in the latter. This seems to defeat the purpose of splitting it out, especially as all previous subpackages only carry a Recommends:. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: dnf remove qcom-wwan-firmware Actual Results: DNF attempts to remove linux-firmware and related packages Expected Results: qcom-wwan-firmware can be removed independently, and is not installed as a hard dependency of linux-firmware
This is the way we handle it when we split out firmware to ensure no regressions to existing users and ensure upgrade paths. If you look back through the history of the rest of the sub packages with recommends they all started as requires to ensure the upgrade path and it later gets relaxed.
(In reply to Peter Robinson from comment #1) > If you look back > through the history of the rest of the sub packages with recommends they all > started as requires to ensure the upgrade path and it later gets relaxed. Okay, let's do that: ╶➤ git -P blame -s -L 27,38 linux-firmware.spec 50de9939 27) Recommends: amd-gpu-firmware a5cdcc32 28) Recommends: amd-ucode-firmware be92a95e 29) Recommends: atheros-firmware be92a95e 30) Recommends: brcmfmac-firmware 25343c35 31) Recommends: cirrus-audio-firmware 25343c35 32) Recommends: intel-audio-firmware 25343c35 33) Recommends: intel-gpu-firmware be92a95e 34) Recommends: mt7xxx-firmware 25343c35 35) Recommends: nvidia-gpu-firmware 25343c35 36) Recommends: nxpwireless-firmware be92a95e 37) Recommends: realtek-firmware 25343c35 38) Recommends: tiwilink-firmware 50de9939 is the tail end of a series of changes to a conditional block, which as of that commit was: Recommends: amd-gpu-firmware Recommends: intel-gpu-firmware Recommends: nvidia-gpu-firmware %if 0%{?fedora} && 0%{?fedora} < 39 Requires: atheros-firmware Requires: brcmfmac-firmware Requires: mt7xxx-firmware Requires: realtek-firmware %else Recommends: atheros-firmware Recommends: brcmfmac-firmware Recommends: mt7xxx-firmware Recommends: realtek-firmware %endif and some variant thereof for all prior changes touching this block back to its introduction in be92a95e; see below. a5cdcc32 added another conditional: %if 0%{?fedora} && 0%{?fedora} < 40 Requires: amd-ucode-firmware %else Recommends: amd-ucode-firmware %endif be92a95e added the first version of the conditional later modified through 50de9939: %if 0%{?fedora} > 38 Recommends: atheros-firmware Recommends: brcmfmac-firmware Recommends: mt7xxx-firmware Recommends: realtek-firmware %else Requires: atheros-firmware Requires: brcmfmac-firmware Requires: mt7xxx-firmware Requires: realtek-firmware %endif 25343c35 reordered several lines originally sourced from b2768f61, which looked like this: Recommends: amd-gpu-firmware Recommends: intel-gpu-firmware Recommends: nvidia-gpu-firmware %if 0%{?fedora} && 0%{?fedora} < 40 Requires: amd-ucode-firmware Requires: cirrus-audio-firmware Requires: intel-audio-firmware Requires: nxpwireless-firmware Requires: tiwilink-firmware %else Recommends: amd-ucode-firmware Recommends: cirrus-audio-firmware Recommends: intel-audio-firmware Recommends: nxpwireless-firmware Recommends: tiwilink-firmware %endif %if 0%{?fedora} && 0%{?fedora} < 39 Requires: atheros-firmware Requires: brcmfmac-firmware Requires: mt7xxx-firmware Requires: realtek-firmware %else Recommends: atheros-firmware Recommends: brcmfmac-firmware Recommends: mt7xxx-firmware Recommends: realtek-firmware %endif ...and so on, back to 6e605212 which introduced the initial -gpu-firmware subpackages with an unconditional Recommends:. So, no, none of the other current subpackages were added via an unconditional Requires: committed across all branches, making the addition of qcom-wwan-firmware in df8f20ed an exception. Had it been handled like the rest, I wouldn't have bothered opening this bug. The unconditional Requires: is almost certainly inappropriate for rawhide, and arguably for F43, given the timing; either way, "later gets relaxed" is exceptionally vague, especially given the branch-based precedent for everything else.
FEDORA-2025-badf0ec7c2 (linux-firmware-20250917-2.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-badf0ec7c2
FEDORA-2025-5dc8119805 (linux-firmware-20250917-2.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-5dc8119805
FEDORA-2025-247771a325 (linux-firmware-20250917-2.fc41) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 41. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-247771a325
FEDORA-2025-5dc8119805 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-5dc8119805` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-5dc8119805 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2025-badf0ec7c2 has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-badf0ec7c2` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-badf0ec7c2 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2025-247771a325 has been pushed to the Fedora 41 testing repository. Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command: `sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-247771a325` You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-247771a325 See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
FEDORA-2025-5dc8119805 (linux-firmware-20250917-2.fc43) has been pushed to the Fedora 43 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2025-badf0ec7c2 (linux-firmware-20250917-2.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
FEDORA-2025-247771a325 (linux-firmware-20250917-2.fc41) has been pushed to the Fedora 41 stable repository. If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.