dnf replacing yum and dnf-yum

Steve Clark sclark at netwolves.com
Fri Apr 10 11:16:30 UTC 2015


On 04/10/2015 07:04 AM, Jan Zelený wrote:
> On 10. 4. 2015 at 09:34:15, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> Am 10.04.2015 um 09:18 schrieb Jan Zelený:
>>> On 10. 4. 2015 at 08:53:46, Petr Spacek wrote:
>>>> I very much agree with this. As a user, I expect that 'dnf upgrade' will
>>>> give me latest packages and that DNF will tell me the fact that newer
>>>> packages are available but not installable.
>>>>
>>>> Maybe it could have a form of plugin, at least for the beginning?
>>> Again, dnf check-update already does that
>> Again: that argument is pointless because *nobody* is calling it by hand
>> after "dnf upgrade" and so that information is *not* available for the
>> regular dnf/yum user
> The vision for dnf is to be more simple and more effective tool for admins that
> will not try to solve problems of other components. On the other hand we want
> to enable package maintainers and other advanced users to achieve their use
> cases somehow but dnf will never be a debugging tool. Bottom line, we will
> consider this feature request but considering it is the only promise I can
> give you.
>
> Thanks
> Jan
Mr. Zeleny,

As an admin and user how does this behavior make it simpler for me? I now have to do 2 steps to make sure things
worked as expected. How is this simpler?

Regards,

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Stephen Clark
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