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I am running CentOS 8. Often when I install a package with a lot of dependencies and then remove the package, the number of removed packages is rarely the same as the amount I installed originally.

At first I thought they were being orphaned but this is not the case, as running package-cleanup or dnf-autoremove yields nothing.

Where are these packages going? Why didn't I have them before if they were being used by some other package?

See for example 

[root@localhost user]# yum history ID | Command line | Date and time | Action(s) | Altered ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 102 | remove steam | 2020-04-20 20:21 | Removed | 12 101 | install steam | 2020-04-20 18:52 | Install | 146
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    Is clean_requirements_on_remove enabled in dnf.conf? When you do dnf history info 101 and dnf history info 102, exactly which packages are getting uninstalled and which ones aren't? Commented Apr 21, 2020 at 3:06

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