Hello! I had an idea for a summer internship project, but I wanted to ask my fellow Fedora devs if something like this already exists so it doesn't get created as a duplicate project.
The idea is to create a dnf plugin that would allow you to do this: $ sudo dnf upgrade FEDORA-2017-30604deb62 That update is a Gnome update, and likely has packages in it that you don't use, but others that you do. The plugin would compare the packages in the update against your installed set of packages to form and execute the true dnf update command that should be run without installing new packages (unless they are required). It would also enable updates-testing of course. It could even be written to pull the rpms from Koji if the update hasn't hit testing yet. I've found that it is a little painful for me to test multi-package updates when I don't use all the RPMs and I don't keep updates-testing enabled on my system, so that's my motivation behind the idea. Does anything like this already exist? If not, does it sound like a useful tool to others? It could also support the install command, in which case it would just install all the RPMs from the update.
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