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Removing cockpit-composer will remove cockpit? #17715

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I installed cockpit-composer to check it out and now I want to remove it. But if I do, cockpit will be uninstalled?
Under Rocky Linux 8.6.

Is this some bug or it's on purpose? If it's on purpose, why? I'm confused.
Thanks for your help.

  1. Did you have Cockpit installed before Cockpit-Composer?
    • In my quick testing of Rocky Linux 8.6 (and RL9, which has Cockpit installed by default) in VMs (see above), Cockpit isn't removed when Cockpit-Composer is, if Cockpit was installed before Cockpit-Composer was installed... so this doesn't seem like a general case.
    • Cockpit itself is generally standalone, but it's also a dependency of other projects, such as Cockpit-Composer. If Cockpit is only inst…

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