F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

Miloslav Trmač mitr at volny.cz
Thu Jun 12 15:13:49 UTC 2014


2014-06-12 17:03 GMT+02:00 Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com>:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Jan Zelený  wrote:
>
>>
>> We are on the same page, thanks for your input.
>>
>
> I don't think so.  You are clearly arguing for a temporary compatibility
> wrapper but eventually forcing everyone to use dnf as the command.  The
> other side is wanting yum to continue to remain the name for the command
> with yum-legacy for temporary transition.  In otherwords, dnf is an
> internal project name and doesn't need to be exposed to the user.
>

There are not only two sides :)  I don’t insist on dnf being a hidden
“internal project name”; introducing new features (only?) under the dnf
name is fine with me.  I do object to planning to unnecessarily break the
yum commands for which we actually have compatibility.
    Mirek
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