Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/09/2014 05:49 PM, Jan Zelený wrote:
> On 9. 6. 2014 at 16:41:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>> On 06/09/2014 02:30 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote:
>>>>> till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills.
>>>>> IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacement for yum.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that's the plan. There are some differences but they are all well
>>>> documented.
>>>
>>> Is the plan to actually rename dnf to yum at that point?
>>
>> 1. Is there a yum compatibility test suite? It dnf is supposed to be a
>> drop-in replacement, not having one would seem grossly silly and should
>> be treated as "full stop show stopper".
>>
>> 2. If dnf is supposed to be a drop-in replacement, a more reasonable
>> approach but to force dnf upon all users by brute force, would be to
>> apply "alternatives".
>>
>>> If it is truly a
>>> drop-in replacement, that seems like the less disruptive approach for
>>> users
>>> (and scripts) everywhere.
>>
>> Agreed. I regret, but so far, dnf I do not see much sense in dnf.
>
> Dnf is not supposed to be 100% drop-in replacement (hence the list of
> incompatibilities in the dnf documentation). I'd rather say that it's supposed
> to be as compatible as possible, focusing on the most widely used features
> first.

Well, in this case ... you don't want to hear, what I think of this.

What you currently are doing, definitely is against the Fedora users' 
interests, to say the least.

Ralf