F22 System Wide Change: Replace Yum With DNF

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 11:37:15AM -0400, Chuck Anderson wrote:
> 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?

Even harder to change:

 - 10000s of users' brains

 - 10000s of pages of web-based documentation and printed books

Just leave the command as "yum" and redirect to dnf transparently.

Rich.

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