Save everybody some surprises in Fedora 22!

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:53 AM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Why not "Vote for yum vs dnf"?
>> What exactly is wrong with yum?
>> It has worked faultlessly and painlessly for me for years,
>> with addons to deal with every conceivable problem.
>> If there is some problem with it,
>> why not simply deal with that problem
>> instead of inventing a completely new program?
>
> Because the code base of yum is 10+ years old and is very difficult to maintain.
> Dnf was forked from yum with a goal to refactor the code base so it can be
> around for another 10+ years.

Also, dnf is built on top of the 7 year old dependency solving library
from openSUSE, so it's not exactly reinventing the wheel either.

-T.C.