raising warning flag on firewalld-default feature

Richard Vickery richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com
Mon Nov 12 21:41:02 UTC 2012


If dnf is no improvement, then I'd rather we stick with yum; messing with
something new just means spending time that I don't have trying to learn
that new command. This is incredibly cumbersome. If at all possible, please
stay with yum.
On Nov 12, 2012 10:53 AM, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
> > Yum will likely be replaced with dnf afaik. I don't think zif is under
> > consideration at all.
>
> That's exactly what I'm complaining about. Dnf is no improvement over yum
> at
> all, zif would bring real advantages through the simple fact that it's
> native code, not Python. Native C code is faster, requires less memory and
> is less likely to break when the system is broken (and thus more likely to
> be usable to repair it). Zif also interoperates much better with PackageKit
> (on which our package management UIs, gnome-packagekit and Apper, are
> based), being implemented in the same language by the same primary
> developer
> and designed with PackageKit in mind (whereas yum happily breaks APIs used
> by PackageKit, see e.g. the repo.str() case; apparently, you don't even
> test
> your changes with PackageKit!).
>
>         Kevin Kofler
>
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