dnf versus yum

[Dan Mashal]

On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Richard Vickery
<richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
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>> look like it starts to happen again: a replacement which is not ready
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>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/444565.html
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2014-January/444563.html
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>> please realize that a drop-in replacement *first* needs to be *really*
>> drop-in and not "somehow like", otherwise all the things you may make
>> better are worthless
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>> and yes "yum remove kernel" is a *minimum* to handeled properly
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>> there are people maintaining RHEL5,RHEL6,RHEL7 and Fedora machines
>> guess how abused they are if they have completly different behavior
>> because dveleopers tend to call anything they don't like to implement
>> a "border case"
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> Reindl makes a very good case here against the adoption. The last thing we
> want is to cause confusion in the community. It may be very wise to wait and
> give the community more time to absorb dnf. I confess that it would be a
> learning curve for me to use this command: I could imagine the headaches it
> would bring others with much more pressing deadlines.
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> my 2 cents,

I don't understand what the learning curve is? It works exactly the
same as yum. Typing 'dnf' instead of 'yum' is a learning curve?

I'm confused.

Dan