DNF is the default for F22

M. Edward (Ed) Borasky znmeb at znmeb.net
Fri Jan 23 00:13:13 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Pete Travis <me at petetravis.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 22, 2015 3:56 PM, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb at znmeb.net> wrote:
>>
>> Renaming "dnf" to "yum" would break enough of my code that I'd be
>> hard-pressed to justify continuing using and remixing Fedora.
>>
>
> Maybe you should try it, then report back all the edge cases we need to
> document :P
>
> But seriously, that's exactly the point I was trying to make.  It isn't a
> drop-in replacement.  It behaves differently in many ways, and nobody likes
> surprises from their operating system.  If you can read the docs first, less
> surprises.
>
> --Pete
>
> p.s. -obligatory grumble about top posting on lists...

I do plan to migrate my scripts from yum to dnf fairly soon - as soon
as I figure out how to suppress document installs with dnf in a Docker
image. So you'll be getting dnf bug reports if anything breaks in
remixes or Docker images.


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