dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Apr 7 16:33:50 UTC 2015


On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 16:09:46 +0000,
  Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>afaik, --best don't erase stuff, you need --allowerasing for that
>
>--bestTry the best available package versions in transactions. Specifically
>during dnf upgrade, which by default skips over updates that can not be
>installed for dependency reasons, the switch forces DNF to only consider
>the latest packages and possibly fail giving a reason why the latest
>version can not be installed.

Thanks for the explanation.

It looks like --best would only affect updates in rare cases.


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