DNF as default package manager

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Wed, 2015-01-21 at 11:02 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> Dne 21.1.2015 v 10:35 Peter Robinson napsal(a):
> > 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
> 
> I am using mock for Fedora development with DNF enabled by default and
> it works just fine. May be you want to share what is troubling you?

There is a difference between « it works just fine for me » and « it
works to build the distro »

The latter needs much more testing and guarantees than the former,
although the former is certainly encouraging.


-- 
Mathieu