On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 14:32, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 12:57, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 12:53 PM Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I was talking to a software vendor about there install instructions using yum instead of dnf for EL 8 and he took the feedback back to the development team but the response was that dnf was "going away" in EL 9...
> > >
> > > Did I miss something?
> > >
> >
> > RHEL product folks hate the name "DNF", so they always call it "YUM
> > powered by DNF technology". Consequently, the documentation uses "yum"
> > instead of "dnf", even if it's the same thing ("yum" is a symlink to
> > "dnf").
>
> I am going to call that an inaccurate and misleading statement which I
> have corrected you once before on. The product folk really really
And I am going to call myself out for using language that should not
have been typed in the first place. I have pointed out in the past
that it was customer feedback which kept yum, but I should not have
been as grumpy or vindictive in my phrasing. My apologies and I need
to do better.
> --
> Stephen J Smoogen.
> Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard
> battle. -- Ian MacClaren
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
Let us be kind to one another, for most of us are fighting a hard
battle. -- Ian MacClaren
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