What were you trying to do that didn't work?

Automatically remove all packages that are neither user-installed nor transitively Required by any user-installed package (i.e. what dnf autoremove is supposed to do).

Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

dnf-4.7.0-19.el8 in particular, but the same appears to be true for RHEL 9 (and in dnf master from looking at the code).

How reproducible:

Always, since this is a missing feature rather than a strict bug.

Steps to reproduce

1. Configure 'install_weak_deps=False'
2. Install package A which 'Requires: C', pulling in C as a dependency.
3. Install package B which 'Recommends: C'
4. Remove package A
5. Run a dnf autoremove

Expected results

There should be some way to configure dnf autoremove to ignore weak dependencies, resulting in C being automatically removed.

Actual results

There is no such ability; the weak requirement of B on C will prevent it from ever being autoremoved.

This means that the 'install_weak_deps=False' config option is insufficient to prevent weak dependencies from sneaking into the system. It really feels like there should be a mirror option like 'retain_weak_deps=False' or 'autoremove_weak_deps=True' to allow cleaning up (or install_weak_deps should directly apply to autoremove, but that's a change in behaviour).

Workarounds like iterating over all packages in the system to manually identify such cases are not scalable.