DNF as default package manager

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 21.1.2015 v 11:13 Mathieu Bridon napsal(a):
> 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.
>
>

If somebody says "I certainly don't think it's ready to be default for
mock yet.", I expect him to have strong evidence that something is
wrong, not that something needs more testing.


Vít