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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora 32 System-Wide Change proposal (late): Enable EarlyOOM
From:       "John M. Harris Jr" <johnmh () splentity ! com>
Date:       2020-08-05 6:59:13
Message-ID: 16074882.geO5KgaWL5 () mail ! malum ! me
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On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 1:45:52 AM MST Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Yesterday, I have updated my Rawhide and wondered why `dnf autoremove`
> would want to remove earlyoom just to discover that soft dependency in
> earlyoom was dropped [1] and hence nothing requires earlyoom and DNF is
> free to remove this package (and it is possibly not installed anymore on
> upgraded systems).
> 
> Therefore I wonder what is the status of EarlyOOM. Should I let the
> package go? If not, then the situation should be fixed somehow, probably
> either by reverting the revert or adding the dependency into
> fedora-release as was proposed elsewhere.

Generally, if you let the package go, your system won't suffer from your 
processes getting killed needlessly. This is likely a benefit, so I don't know 
if this is really a bug.

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.

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