dnf versus yum

[Alec Leamas]

On 2014-01-05 19:24, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> On 01/05/2014 07:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:04 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 10:27 +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> ...
>>>> The running kernel should not be removed with a simple 'dnf erase
>>>> kernel' (why did they change remove into erase?),
>>>
>>> They didn't. Both work on both.
>>
>> It's symptomatic of how fucking terrible this thread is, btw, that
>> people would post without checking any of this. It takes about ten
>> seconds to open a kernel and run 'yum remove foo', 'yum erase foo', 'dnf
>> remove foo', 'dnf erase foo'. If you're not going to go to *that* much
>> trouble, it's a bit rich to start excoriating the dnf devs.
>
> As I mentioned before I only auto completed yum, remove is not party 
> of the auto completed commands. If remove should be there, then this 
> is a bug. I will file one.
>
> dnf has no auto completion and I have only seen reference to erase. 
> The man page of dnf does not mention remove (it mentions 'group 
> remove'). This should probably be added. I will file a bug on that one 
> too.
>
> As a side not 'dnf --help' shows:
>
> '--version             show Yum version and exit'
>
> which probably also is wrong.
>
> This is by no mean any excoriation of the dnf devs on my part.
>
> Three documentation "bugs" out of a side track of a thread is not a 
> terrible thread, in my opinion...
>
> Lars
Add one doc bug for yum-builddep whtch I filed  while messing around 
after reading this  - that makes four.


--alec