getting rid of yum

[Jan Zelený]

On 15. 12. 2014 at 22:10:21, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> On Monday, December 15, 2014 10:34:30 AM Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Question: why do stuff like createrepo, fedup, livecd-tools, etc still
> > depend on yum? Should they be made to depend on dnf now, in which case,
> > should there be a bug report on this?
> 
> Yum isn't going anywhere anytime soon. DNF doesn't support createrepo/local
> repositories. Folks are going to use yum for at least a few releases even
> after F22.

Well, yes and no. Yum is not going away completely but some powerful features 
(like the extended dependency model) are coming to rpm which yum will not keep 
up with and at that point it will pretty much stop working.

Thanks
Jan