Re: F45 Change Proposal: Disable Vendor Change by Default (system-wide)

Neal Becker wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 11:42 AM Nicolas Mailhot via devel <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > IMHO the default should be vendor change prohibition, with a dnf
> > argument to allow explicit transitions. ie
> > dnf update --allow-vendor-change somepackage
> > (and then --disablerepo can be used for finer control of the transition
> > if needed)
> > I prefer to not have automatic vendor change, but I'd like to be told that
> > a newer version is available with a different vendor in my allowed repos.
> Otherwise if I for example installed from copr and then forgot about it, I
> might never learn that a newer version is available in Fedora updates.

We are currently working on adding a notification to DNF5 when a newer version is available from a different vendor.
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