18.06.21, 12:43 +0200, Cisco Tissera:
For quite random reasons, I was wondering what would happen if I completely removed yum, and only used dnf. Is it possible to do that? or would it totally break the system? Another question: why keep two package managers, and not switch to dnf and just keep dnf?
On a fresh install of F34 Server I see this:
# LANG=C dnf list installed *yum* Installed Packages yum.noarch 4.7.0-1.fc34 @updates
# rpm -ql yum /usr/bin/yum /usr/share/man/man8/yum.8.gz
# ls -l /usr/bin/yum lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 13. Mai 16:35 /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3*
So, there's pretty little "yummy" stuff there. And what is there is not much more than a pointer to dnf. It seems, the switch to dnf you asked about has basically already happened.