On 06/16/14 00:27, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 06/09/2014 06:00 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? If it is truly a
drop-in replacement, that seems like the less disruptive approach for users
(and scripts) everywhere.
Additionally, in remembrance of Seth Vidal, I would hate to see Fedora lose
'yum'. Even if Seth would probably find that silly, it's important to me.
+1
Let us keep at least the name, if not the code. I have been a happy user
of yum, and have observed it to be innovative enough.
By the way, 'dnf erase kernel' scares me :-O
[root@box10 bobg]# dnf update
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
and then:
[root@box10 bobg]# yum update
Loaded plugins: ... snip ,,,
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
=============================================================================================================================================
Updating:
NetworkManager x86_64
1:0.9.9.0-39.git20131003.fc20 updates 1.2 M
NetworkManager-glib x86_64
1:0.9.9.0-39.git20131003.fc20 updates 348 k
ghostscript x86_64 9.14-3.fc20
updates 4.4 M
gnome-abrt x86_64 0.3.7-1.fc20
updates 213 k
qt x86_64 1:4.8.6-9.fc20
updates 4.7 M
qt-x11 x86_64 1:4.8.6-9.fc20
updates 13 M
thunderbird x86_64 24.6.0-1.fc20
updates 45 M
yumex noarch 3.0.15-1.fc20
updates 431 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================
Upgrade 8 Packages
Total download size: 68 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them does here,
Bob
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