Re: Why was YUM removed

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On 10 December 2015 at 14:44, Ian Malone <ibmalone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 10 December 2015 at 11:51, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Ralf Corsepius sent:
>>> My view: The only thing that was wrong with yum, was it being
>>> work-in-progress, when its maintainer passed away.
>>
>> One hopes that something as central as the updating/installing tool
>> would be (a) worked on by more than one person, and (b) sufficiently
>> documented that the project could be taken over.
>>
>> My second point seems to be seriously lacking on Fedora.  While I can't
>> personally speak to documentation regarding software coding, the
>> documentation for operating some software is sorely lacking.  There are
>> some distros where good documentation is a prerequisite to software
>> being accepted.
>>
>
> Was that not the case for YUM? It was worked on by more than one
> person and while I don't know what the developer documentation for it
> is like the end user documentation had been around for a long time.
> The case, at least as Ralf put it, is that with the lead developer's
> (tragic) death the people working on it decided to build something
> else instead.
>

Though the chronology of that is wrong, because FESCO approved DNF in
2012, when it was already being suggested as a YUM replacement.

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