Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jun 9 16:25:11 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 02:46:23PM +0200, Ales Kozumplik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The time when DNF will take over from Yum in Fedora is nearing.
> We're wondering: is there stuff people are still missing from DNF
> that they have got recently in Yum? Or even something else! We've
> put together a very short and simple survey. Let your opinion be
> heard!
> 
> http://dnf.baseurl.org/2014/06/06/vote-for-yum-features-that-you-miss-in-dnf/

Is the command still going to be called "yum"?

It appears from https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceYumWithDNF
that everyone will have to start writing "dnf install ...", which (if
true) invalidates a vast amount of existing documentation and scripts.

Rich.

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