On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 10:50 +0100, Mattia Verga wrote: > This is the first time I heard of DNF. > Looking at the page where differences between DNF and yum are > explained (http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html) my question > is: do we really need DNF to replace yum? > > Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that DNF is no more than yum with > some different standard behavior and a couple of new command line > options. So why replace yum? If those changes are good why simply > don't change standard options in yum or add those new commands to yum? Because yum's code is a mess. The primary point of the dnf rewrite is not to alter the user interface, but to clean up the code itself. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
