dnf command to download

[Radek Holy]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Greshko" <ed.greshko at greshko.com>
> To: "Fedora" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 6, 2015 2:56:56 AM
> Subject: Re: dnf command to download
> 
> On 07/06/15 08:47, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > On 07/06/15 08:33, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> >> It's a plugin
> > A plugin question then.
> >
> > I see python3-dnf-plugins-core as well as python-dnf-plugins-core.  They
> > have the same description.  Is there a preference as to which have
> > installed?
> >
> 
> I guess, never mind...  Not a python person but...
> 
> I see /bin/dnf is a symbolic link to dnf-2 and /bin/python is also a symlink
> to python2.  So, it seems, the default version used on the system is python2
> so python-dnf-plugins-core is the proper one.
> 
> --
> Sorta what I want to say when folks habitually complain about Fedora -
> https://youtu.be/ZArl8fTfub4

It depends on your use case.

If you want to use plugins of the regular DNF, just install "dnf-plugins-core" (no need to choose between python*-dnf-plugins-core).

If you need the plugins to be available from a particular Python version, install the appropriate python*-dnf-plugins-core package. But since these plugins does not provide any API and the plugins are not accessible from DNF's API, there is probably no good use case.

Well, "python3-dnf" on Fedora < 23 and "python-dnf" on Fedora >= 23 provides an experimental binary ("/usr/bin/dnf-3" and "/usr/bin/dnf-2" respectively) which allows you to test DNF with the Python version which is not the default in the given Fedora. If you want to test plugins with these, then you need to install "python3-dnf-plugins-core" on Fedora < 23 and "python-dnf-plugins-core" on Fedora >= 23.
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Radek Holý
Associate Software Engineer
Software Management Team
Red Hat Czech