Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

[Barry]

> On 18 Jun 2021, at 12:26, Cisco Tissera  wrote:
>
> 
> Hello there,
>
> Yes, the switch has happened indeed, since Fedora... 21?
> The point I'm trying to make is, why keep yum, since the  switch to dnf has already happened?

My guess is that it to do with a lot of code expecting yum and not dnf.
At work we use different versions of Centos and they all support yum, not all support dnf.
> Even yum's plugins and extra utilities are still a thing.

And the config is in /etc/yum.repos.d

Barry
> Best regards.
> Francisco.
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:10 AM Markus Schönhaber  wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > -- 
> > Regards
> >   mks
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