On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
> I'd go with alternative-for(nodejs-bin). There's even code in dnf that will
> tell you the options if you try to install nodejs-bin (unless the metapackage
> is called that).
>
> You can try it out in RHEL 8. But the code made it to dnf5 as well [1].
>
>    $ mock -r rhel-8-x86_64 --dnf-cmd install python
>    ...
>    No match for argument: python
>    There are following alternatives for "python": python2, python3.11,
> python3.12, python36, python38, python39
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/blob/5.2.15.0/libdnf5/base/transaction.cpp#L294

Nice! Now I'm glad that I asked, so I do not reinvent the wheel.

Is the alternative-for(X) mentioned anywhere in docs, or is it one of
those tribal-knowledge bits?
-- 

Jan Stanek

Software Engineer

Red Hat

IM: @jstanek

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