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Does dnf remove only remove packages which aren't part of other dependencies? I removed gnome-boxes because I like vmware better but it removed a ton of dependencies, which made me wonder; i.e. gnome-boxes were dependent on capstone, if I had other software installed which were dependent on the latter, would capstone have been removed anyway?

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  • I never had any issue with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoremove which includes an update to prevent issues.
    – John
    Jul 7, 2021 at 21:24

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Yes, that's exactly how dnf (and other package managers) works. And if something depends on gnome-boxes, removing gnome-boxes would also remove it.

You can use --noautoremove to prevent this from happening and later run dnf autoremove to remove all "leaf" packages (packages from the system that were originally installed as dependencies of user-installed packages, but which are no longer required by any such package).

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