DNF Article

[Glen Rundblom]

Hello Marketing Group.
I have an article about DNF in the pending state. Could someone take a 
few minutes and review it to see if it's something that would be good 
for the magazine. I also made a little PNG graphic with Gimp script-fu 
if that would be beneficial.

Thank you,
-Glen

[Bryan Sutherland]

LOL, hindsight: DNF may not have been such a great name... DNF a.k.a. Did
Not Finish :/

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 10:54 PM, Glen Rundblom <glen(a)rundblom.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello Marketing Group.
>  I have an article about DNF in the pending state. Could someone take a few
>  minutes and review it to see if it's something that would be good for the
>  magazine. I also made a little PNG graphic with Gimp script-fu if that
>  would be beneficial.
>
>  Thank you,
>  -Glen
>
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[Ryan Lerch]

On 02/05/2015 10:54 PM, Glen Rundblom wrote:
>  Hello Marketing Group.
>  I have an article about DNF in the pending state. Could someone take a 
>  few minutes and review it to see if it's something that would be good 
>  for the magazine. I also made a little PNG graphic with Gimp script-fu 
>  if that would be beneficial.
>
>  Thank you,
>  -Glen
>  
I just checked out your article, and it looks like a great concept for 
an article.

It would be good to provide a lot more detail a couple of points that 
would be nice to cover and fleshed out would be:

* a brief explanation of what YUM/DNF actually are and do on a 
conceptual level -- our audience range on the Magazine is kinda broad, 
so it would be nice to have a sentence or two on this for people that 
might not know exactly what a package manager does.

* "DNF will have a lot more features, and new ways to operate." -- it 
would be nice to list some of the changes and new features out in here 
-- as well as an explanation as to why DNF is better

* comparing the sample commands might also be good too: something like:
   "Searching for packages with DNF is basically the same as with yum. 
To Search for the repositories for a package with DNF, use the command: 
sudo dnf search nano, and dnf will return ..."

* DNF is not the default in f21, so it would also be good to explain how 
people can use it on f21 -- what package needs to be installed etc. I 
think there is also a package that makes it so DNF is run when you type 
yum, so this might be worth mentioning as well

* Not sure when DNF is going to be the default, but it might be good to 
try to find out if / when this is on the plans in Fedora for, and 
mentioning that too.

cheers,
ryanlerch

[Pete Travis]

On Feb 6, 2015 7:57 AM, "Ryan Lerch" <rlerch(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On 02/05/2015 10:54 PM, Glen Rundblom wrote:
> >
> > Hello Marketing Group.
> > I have an article about DNF in the pending state. Could someone take a 
few
minutes and review it to see if it's something that would be good for
the magazine. I also made a little PNG graphic with Gimp script-fu if that
would be beneficial.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > -Glen
> >
>  I just checked out your article, and it looks like a great concept for an 
article.
>  It would be good to provide a lot more detail a couple of points that 
would be nice
to cover and fleshed out would be:
>  * a brief explanation of what YUM/DNF actually are and do on a conceptual 
level --
our audience range on the Magazine is kinda broad, so it would be
nice to have a sentence or two on this for people that might not know
exactly what a package manager does.
>  * "DNF will have a lot more features, and new ways to operate." -- it
would be nice to list some of the changes and new features out in here --
as well as an explanation as to why DNF is better
>  * comparing the sample commands might also be good too: something like:
>    "Searching for packages with DNF is basically the same as with yum. To
Search for the repositories for a package with DNF, use the command: sudo
dnf search nano, and dnf will return ..."
>  * DNF is not the default in f21, so it would also be good to explain how 
people can
use it on f21 -- what package needs to be installed etc. I think
there is also a package that makes it so DNF is run when you type yum, so
this might be worth mentioning as well
>  * Not sure when DNF is going to be the default, but it might be good to 
try to find
out if / when this is on the plans in Fedora for, and
mentioning that too.
>  cheers,
>  ryanlerch
>
>  --
>  
Since we're making bullet points on dnf for a broad audience, I also
suggest advising everyone to install dnf-plugins and explaining a bit about
the --best argument.  These two things make a huge difference to the dnf
experience.

--Pete