DNF as default package manager

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 09:35:34 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:22 AM, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/21/2015 09:33 AM, Vít Ondruch wrote:
>> It is surprising to see so many packges depending on yum. Yes, there is
>> stuff like rpm-build and mock,
>
> And mock can live without yum. If we only had weak deps allowed in Fedora mock.spec would have
>   Recommends: yum
>
> But I'm really interested in state of DNF as default too. Should I switch mock to use DNF as default?
> For me there is still lot of unfinished tasks. E.g. documenting what --installroot should actually do [BZ 1163028]

I don't think it's ready, it might be useful to have an option to
switch it over for local use to enable easier wider testing but I
certainly don't think it's ready to be default for mock yet.

Peter


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