F18 DNF and history

[Adam Miller]

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 10:51 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:33 +0200, Ales Kozumplik wrote:
> > On 06/19/2012 02:44 PM, Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a question about DNF https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF
> > >
> > > Are there any plans to replace yum with dnf in the future?
> > >
> > > According to what is written here
> > > https://github.com/akozumpl/dnf/wiki/Features-Considered-for-Dropping
> > > history function will likely be dropped.
> > >
> > >  From my POV history feature is very useful. Is there a plan to provide
> > > history function in Fedora dnf if yum gets dropped?
> > >
> > 
> > Hi Michal,
> > 
> > Thanks for pointing this out. I considered history a candidate for 
> > dropping because I didn't realize people had usecases for it. It is not 
> > present in the early versions of DNF but I will make sure to put it back 
> > in later.
> 
> Just to add my voice to the choir, I use it extensively and I suspect
> many others in QA group too. It's extremely useful when trying to
> determine exactly what update caused a given problem.
> -- 
> Adam Williamson
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+1 - I too use the history function of yum quite a bit.

-AdamM