<p>If dnf is no improvement, then I'd rather we stick with yum; messing with something new just means spending time that I don't have trying to learn that new command. This is incredibly cumbersome. If at all possible, please stay with yum.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 12, 2012 10:53 AM, "Kevin Kofler" <<a href="mailto:kevin.kofler@chello.at">kevin.kofler@chello.at</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Seth Vidal wrote:<br>
> Yum will likely be replaced with dnf afaik. I don't think zif is under<br>
> consideration at all.<br>
<br>
That's exactly what I'm complaining about. Dnf is no improvement over yum at<br>
all, zif would bring real advantages through the simple fact that it's<br>
native code, not Python. Native C code is faster, requires less memory and<br>
is less likely to break when the system is broken (and thus more likely to<br>
be usable to repair it). Zif also interoperates much better with PackageKit<br>
(on which our package management UIs, gnome-packagekit and Apper, are<br>
based), being implemented in the same language by the same primary developer<br>
and designed with PackageKit in mind (whereas yum happily breaks APIs used<br>
by PackageKit, see e.g. the repo.str() case; apparently, you don't even test<br>
your changes with PackageKit!).<br>
<br>
Kevin Kofler<br>
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