On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 4:55 PM Stephen Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > Thankyou. Until you provided that man command I didn't know that > documentation existed to get an idea of what is future planned, hence > the question of how would we know it existed, which as a side issue, > applies to all documentation in Fedora. How does newby users like me > know what documentation does exist? Fedora: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/
> The other question I had on the dnf color scheme was, in F42 packages to > be installed/upgraded were display in "Bold, green" as they are in dnf5, > I don't remember dnf showing the names of packages being replaced like > dnf5 does which it displays in white, and in the same list with the > version of packages that are being installed/upgraded to those version > numbers display as a mixture of cyan and white and I've never been able > to understand why. Also when kernels are being upgraded, in F42 dnf used > to display the names of the kernels being removed in Red but in F43 they > are displayed in the same green as the rest of the packages even though > the option that I thought controlled that specifies "Dim, red" as the > default color. Having said this though there has been a situation where > I was deliberately uninstalling a package that also uninstalled > dependent a packages and those dependent packages being removed were > displayed in Red, so I'm at a loss to try to understand, for the man > doco, what options and colors are relevant to what I'm seeing being > displayed by dnf when I use it. For transactions https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/blob/2639ebd65b994b4a14d6721bdc4d1eb10e7e84a9/libdnf5-cli/output/transaction_table.cpp#L47 and search https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf5/blob/2639ebd65b994b4a14d6721bdc4d1eb10e7e84a9/libdnf5-cli/output/search.cpp#L78 appear to be hard-coded and don't match the documentation. -Joe -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
