dnf and "RPMDB altered outside of yum"

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2015 09:30:21 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> You can remove yum and install dnf-yum package which provides an alias but
> I wouldn't really recommend that for Fedora 21 yet

Even with Fedora 22 there are explicit dependencies on "yum":

# rpm --test -e yum
error: Failed dependencies:
	yum is needed by (installed) fedora-easy-karma-0-0.23.20140905git5fb5b77a.fc22.noarch
	yum is needed by (installed) bodhi-client-0.9.12.2-1.fc22.noarch
	yum >= 2.4 is needed by (installed) mock-1.2.7-1.fc22.noarch
	yum is needed by (installed) python-dnf-plugins-extras-migrate-0.0.6-2.fc22.noarch
	yum >= 3.4.3-148 is needed by (installed) yum-utils-1.1.31-505.fc22.noarch
	yum >= 3.2.19 is needed by (installed) yum-plugin-auto-update-debug-info-1.1.31-505.fc22.noarch
	yum >= 3.4.3-91 is needed by (installed) anaconda-core-22.20.8-1.fc22.x86_64