On Sun, Jan 05, 2014 at 01:06:16PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-erase-kernel-deletes-all-packages-called-kernel > > Frankly, that's a dumb "feature" to have the package manager know > "magic" things about some names. Why is it dumb? Because some people > then depend on magic "features". Is this "feature" even documented > anywhere? I don't see it in the yum man page for example. [...] > This is Unix; system programs are expected to "do what I say". Don't > try to code "do what I mean" into it (because what you mean is probably > different from what I mean). > > We've had kernel variant packages in the past, like kernel-smp and > kernel-PAE; are all variants supposed to be handled magically? What if > there's a new variant? Would not handling it in the package manager > magic be a release-blocker bug? Kernel packages are special with yum, because multiple packages are installed by default. With your argumentation 'dnf update kernel' should remove the current kernel when a new kernel is installed. Is this really what you expect and what dnf should do? Currently it installs a new kernel without removing the old one as I know it from yum. Regards Till -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
