F22: Merge yumdb for yum->dnf migration?

[Reindl Harald]

Am 30.01.2015 um 14:03 schrieb Casey Jao:
> Currently dnf and yum have their own yumdb's, under /var/lib/dnf/yumdb
> and /var/lib/yum/yumdb respectively.  Among other things, these
> databases record whether a package was explicitly installed by the user
> or pulled in automatically as a dependency of another package. This
> information is used by the "dnf autoremove" and "yum autoremove"
> routines to determine which additional packages can be safely removed.
> As Packagekit currently writes to yum's yumdb, "dnf autoremove" will not
> work correctly when run on packages that were installed using Gnome
> software, and vice versa.
>
> Thus we should consider merging the yumdb's as part of the F22
> transition to a unified dnf/hawkey package management backend

one of the million reasons why "dnf" should renamed back to "yum" after 
it is final and replaces the old yum

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