YUM -> DNF

Bohuslav Kabrda bkabrda at redhat.com
Mon Jun 30 07:00:17 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> On 06/28/2014 09:42 PM, Miro HronĨok wrote:
> > Hi,
> > what is a desired approach when dealing with yum upgrade to dnf?
> >
> > Do we want to replace YUMPackageManager with DNFPackageManager 1:1? Or
> > do we want to have both somehow?
> >
> 
> Hi. We can (and will, I hope) have both, they will both install rpm-type
> dependencies, as stated in the PackageManagers class documentation.
> 
> I think that generally, we do not want to get rid of YUM.

We would definitely *like* to get rid of yum, but we *can't* because we want to support using DevAssistant on RHEL/CentOS :)
I'd personally love to see DNF as the primary package manager for Fedora in next DevAssistant release - let's do it.

Slavek

> TR


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