DNF is the default for F22

[Leslie S Satenstein]

Do you know if dnf will be renamed to yum, and yum to  another?  This renaming was rumoured beginning Fedora 19.

Regards 
 Leslie
 Mr. Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada


 
      From: Pete Travis <me at petetravis.com>
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 Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2015 11:51 PM
 Subject: DNF is the default for F22
   
Barring contingencies, dnf has been approved[0] as the default package
manager for Fedora 22 and subsequent releases. dnf is effectively a
complete rewrite of yum and the underlying dependency solving logic, so
it's a substantial change.  If you have been using it, and especially if
you've been following bug reports[1], you probably know that the
behavior of dnf can differ[2] subtly or surprisingly from what we've
come to expect from yum.

Because of the potential confusion, I propose that we make documenting
dnf a priority for the F22 release.  Specifically, the System
Administrators Guide deals with package management the most, but
essentially *every* guide will have scattered yum invocations.  Let's
branch each guide slated for F22, work through the changes, then review
and merge the branch. The System Administrators guide is going to really
need some special attention, as it should probably address all the
quirks and snags that users will run into.

This is an excellent opportunity for new contributors.  For most guides,
the changes required are very straightforward.  It would be a
closed-ended endeavor and a manageable time investment - *if* we start
soon.  If you're able to take on a guide, please reply.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ReplaceYumWithDNF
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?component=dnf&product=Fedora
[2] http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cli_vs_yum.html

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