Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

[Richard Hughes]

On 9 June 2014 15:41, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> 1. Is there a yum compatibility test suite? It dnf is supposed to be a
> drop-in replacement, not having one would seem grossly silly and should be
> treated as "full stop show stopper".

>From someone that's had to work with the yum API in the past, I think
such a thing would be very difficult if not impossible to achieve. The
yum API grew organically and never really had any kind of published
API docs or ABI stability promises. yum as a command line tool works
well enough modulo multilib and depsolving, yum as a python API, not
so much.

Richard.