announcement --- planned Yum replacement now ready for user testing

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 01/02/2014 02:01 PM, Jan Zelený wrote:
> On 2. 1. 2014 at 13:32:23, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Ales Kozumplik wrote:
>>> On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora
>>> users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that
>>> aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22.
>>
>> Yum works perfectly well, in my experience.
>> The problems you discuss are never met by the average user (like me),
>> who simply use "yum update" and "yum install".
>>
>> By all means introduce an alternative,
>> but please leave yum for those who are satisfied with it.
>> Not another grub2, please.
>
> It's actually going to be the other way around - yum will be an alternative to
> dnf. The thing is that yum will soon enter maintenance mode
Says who and has decided who?

If Fedora was an openly lead project, a yum competitor such as dnf would 
be evaluated against yum and a decision be drawn at an arbitrary future 
point in time.

Ralf