Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

[Barry <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18 Jun 2021, at 12:26, Cisco Tissera <audiogamer2004@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Hello there,

Yes, the switch has happened indeed, since Fedora... 21?

The point I'm trying to make is, why keep yum, since the  switch to dnf has already happened?

My guess is that it to do with a lot of code expecting yum and not dnf.

At work we use different versions of Centos and they all support yum, not all support dnf.

Even yum's plugins and extra utilities are still a thing.

And the config is in /etc/yum.repos.d 

Barry

Best regards.

Francisco.

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:10 AM Markus Schönhaber <fedora-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

18.06.21, 12:43 +0200, Cisco Tissera:

> For quite random reasons, I was wondering what would happen if I completely
> removed yum, and only used dnf.
> Is it possible to do that? or would it totally break the system?
> Another question: why keep two package managers, and not switch to dnf and
> just keep dnf?

On a fresh install of F34 Server I see this:

# LANG=C dnf list installed \*yum\*
Installed Packages
yum.noarch                      4.7.0-1.fc34                   @updates

# rpm -ql yum
/usr/bin/yum
/usr/share/man/man8/yum.8.gz

# ls -l /usr/bin/yum
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 13. Mai 16:35 /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3*

So, there's pretty little "yummy" stuff there. And what is there is not
much more than a pointer to dnf.
It seems, the switch to dnf you asked about has basically already happened.

--
Regards
  mks
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