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I want to remove dnf installed packages using pip but when I type:

$ dnf info package 

the package manager wrongly shows that the package is installed. I alternatively tried removing the package using dnf remove package but it wants to remove dozens of dependencies.

I have looked at dnf mark install and dnf mark remove but metadata about these commands are not clear.

How do I mark system packages that have been uninstalled by pip so that dnf also knows they have been removed?

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You're going about this wrongly. There are many applications that are part of the distro that require python, pip, and a whole host of Python modules.

The installation of these packages into /usr/bin is the domain of 1 package manager (dnf - on Fedora, yum on CentOS). You should not be using pip to install/uninstall anything into this directory. Doing so puts your ability to properly manage the system at risk.

From this point you have:

  1. Only use dnf to manage python-* packages

    $ yum search python |& grep ^python | head python-Bottleneck-doc.noarch : Documentation files for python-Bottleneck python-CDDB.x86_64 : CDDB and FreeDB audio CD track info access in Python python-GeoIP.x86_64 : Python bindings for the GeoIP geographical lookup python-GeographicLib.noarch : Python implementation of GeographicLib python-GnuPGInterface.noarch : A Python module to interface with GnuPG python-GridDataFormats.noarch : Read and write data on regular grids in Python python-IPy.noarch : Python module for handling IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses and python-Levenshtein.x86_64 : Python extension computing string distances and python-MAPI.x86_64 : The Python MAPI extension by Zarafa python-NLopt.x86_64 : Python bindings for NLopt 
  2. Setup a dedicated version of Python/pip using virtualenv/pipenv for your personal software development activities on these systems.

    Fight the urge and leave these intact and not view them as there for you to use etc. for your software endeavors. For your applications you should be using something like virtualenv or pipenv to setup & maintain your own reqirements.txt files and your own isolated Python environments where you'll install/maintain/manage your coding project's needed Python modules.

    We have extensive Q&A on the installation/setup of virtualenv on the site already so please use these to find out more on anything specific to it.

    For reference please refer to these tutorials on getting started with virtualenv:

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