DNF utils package?

[David]

On 6/13/2014 4:33 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 07:34 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
>>> If DNF is going to replace yum, it should have reasonable equivalent
>>> tools. Those working on DNF should know about the yum-utils programs
>>> and the yum plugins we have already. "Community" means different to
>>> different people, Community of users or sysadmins? Users will likely
>>> never use yum-utils.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Shawn
>>
>> User here.
>> yum-utils installed for years.
>> Every home PC user is a sysadmin by default.
> 
> It's a bit pointless to say you 'use yum-utils' or not, because
> yum-utils is a big grab bag of a whole bunch of stuff. It'd be most
> useful for people to note which yum-utils they use *precisely* which do
> not yet have a dnf equivalent.
> 


I *think* what Frank is saying is that *before* Fedora bails on YUM for
dnf there should be similar (better?) tools. That is unless dnf does not
crap out like YUM does from time to time. Or Fedup stops failing for
some users. My 2 cents.

-- 

  David