dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 04/07/2015 06:09 PM, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
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> On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 at 17:54 Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to
> <mailto:bruno at wolff.to>> wrote:
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>     On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 09:07:08 -0600,
>        Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com <mailto:kevin at scrye.com>> wrote:
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>      >dnf's default behavior is like yum with --skip-broken already.
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>     Not when installing packages.
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>      >
>      >If thats not working and you need to find out more, add '--best'
>     to see
>      >things without 'skip-broken'.
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>     My understanding is that --best can erase stuff (outside of obsoletes)
>     and I don't want to do that in scripts.
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> afaik, --best don't erase stuff, you need --allowerasing for that
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> --best
>     Try 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.

Pardon, folks - But haven't we been told dnf was supposed to be yum 
compatible?

I have to admit, I can't deny finding this kind of discussion to be very 
discurbing. They confirm my gut feelings about dnf is being not ready 
prime time and all recent decisions to make it default in mock and yum 
to be premature.