DNF and mock

Jan Zelený jzeleny at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 07:39:07 UTC 2015


On 27. 1. 2015 at 11:29:43, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:25 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > On 27 January 2015 at 10:15, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Ok, I might be asking a completely stupid question here...
> >> 
> >> Why move production stuff over to dnf at all? Isn't dnf's goal in life to
> >> eventually become yum? If dnf is "good enough" to start using it in
> >> production, should the discussion be around dnf -> yum transition?
> > 
> > I think that was dropped a long time ago. dnf isn't going to become yum in
> > some sort of rename. It will be a seperate command and while its syntax
> > will be similar it is not 100% (eg you won't be able to use a yum plugin
> > to
> > work with dnf)
> 
> Ahh, I hadn't seen that. Well, since the name is no longer temporary I
> would like to say that it's a terrible name :)

:-)

FYI: http://dnf.baseurl.org/2014/03/12/on-the-name/

Jan


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