Software Management call for RFEs

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Fri May 24 19:20:24 UTC 2013


On 05/23/2013 07:08 AM, Jan Zelený wrote:
> Have you tried using dnf instead of yum? It is much faster.
>
> To be perfectly honest we don't plan to invest much effort in developing new
> things for yum, it will more and more shift towards maintenance mode and the
> focus will be on dnf.

What does the "we" stand for here? If this is Red Hat on the whole, a 
broader announcement of the plan would be helpful.  I will note that 
while dnf is faster overall, it doesn't have many of the important 
features of yum and I still ran into bugs in some trivial tests from 
time to time.

https://fedoranext.wordpress.com/2013/05/18/status-of-dnf-experimental-fork-of-yum/

Rahul


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