[CentOS] 8-stream dnf overly verbose

Thu Dec 10 17:53:32 UTC 2020
Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk>

In moving a test machine from 8.3 to 8-stream the main thing I've
noticed is that dnf has become very verbose. It's as if someone has
turned on the -v permanently.

I've tried using '-q' (it says nothing then) and I've tried adjusting
the debuglevel, but nothing seems to affect it.  I get things like
this:

Downloading: http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=8-stream&arch=x86_64&repo=BaseOS&infra=stock
Downloading: http://mirror.cov.ukservers.com/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/repodata/repomd.xml|   0  B     --:-- ETA
Downloading: http://mirror.cov.ukservers.com/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/repodata/c2f9210df3e5c24d45228e360eb1f405367c1286d36ec91bf930abb944e3ac44-primary.xml.gz
Downloading: http://mirror.cov.ukservers.com/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/repodata/b412debc52ee7c094b8de2c57a0d6d8827828154a6cd0e1995d588273028a4fe-filelists.xml.gz
Downloading: http://mirror.cov.ukservers.com/centos/8-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/os/repodata/6cd252c469b0dd0c67bc8d8b4ab2df44fb24de52c93decdfe7acc77b97361490-comps-BaseOS.x86_64.xml.xz
CentOS Stream 8 - BaseOS                                                                 13 MB/s | 2.3 M

For every repo when there's nothing cached. It never used to do this.
How can I turn off the "Downloading:" messages?

P.