F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

Pádraig Brady P at draigBrady.com
Wed Jun 11 16:14:25 UTC 2014


On 06/11/2014 04:41 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> 
> Am 11.06.2014 17:37, schrieb Chuck Anderson:
>> Have puppet, chef, ansible, salt, etc. been taught how to use "dnf" to
>> install packages?  I think it would be a shame to force all this
>> software to do s/yum/dnf/ or to have to conditionally code for these
>> differences based on OS release or the presense of yum vs. dnf.  Why
>> not just keep the command name the same with no nag message?
> 
> because it is not state of the art to change things in a
> way that the change is not heavily noticed to point out
> "look we have done something and now it's your turn"
> 
> hopefully coreutils will not get a replacement in the next
> cycle with the commands "move", "copy", "removedir", "Listddir"
> and obsolete "mv", "cp", "rmdir", "ls"

Good idea, they're clearer.
I'll do that in the coming release.

thanks,
Pádraig.


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