dnf?

[Ranjan Maitra]

dnf should work just fine with F20 (it does, for me), but note that it
does not do delta rpm downloads. Other than that, it is pretty stable.

Ranjan


On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 21:38:19 +0000 Beartooth <beartooth at comcast.net>
wrote:

> 
> 	I found http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF#hawkey_package, 
> but couldn't make much of it, since it is written for a much more 
> technically sophisticated audience that I'll ever be.
> 
> 	I gather that dnf is a fork of yum, meant to be or to become a 
> replacement for it. But I don't follow the rationale. 
> 
> 	Should end-users be trying it now? (It does seem, in my limited 
> purview, to work well.) 
> 
> 	Can some Alpha Plus Technoid explain it to the rest of us? 
> 
> 	I have one F20 box that seems to be having endless trouble with 
> NetworkManager, openswan, and libreswan (whatever the latter two may be); 
> what hope is there that dnf will straighten them out sooner and better 
> than yum has been doing?
> 
> 
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