Software Management call for RFEs

Ales Kozumplik akozumpl at redhat.com
Tue May 28 13:30:19 UTC 2013


On 05/24/2013 09:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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

The "one weird bug" (dnf remove wants to install new packages) mentioned 
by the article just got fixed:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916662

Ales


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