On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 17:54 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > Am 12.06.2014 17:41, schrieb Simo Sorce: > > We can keep the yum symlink forever... > > > > I am for a clear break with dnf having its own name. > > Using yum as the name for dnf is just a lie to the user > > it is not a lie > > DNF is a fork of YUM and pretends to be compatible > and if it finally replaces YUM it's just a new > generation of YUM > > as said: otherwise you would have to find a new name > for any major version with large changes of any piece > of software (GNOME, KDE, Apache....) > > frankly and as long there is no useful name call something "DNF" is > not helpful because it has no meaning while YUM is widely known as > > * yet another update manager > * yellowdog updater modified > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowdog_Updater,_Modified > I think that dnf is an unfortunate name change. DNF in almost all kinds of racing stands for Did Not Finish.... Regards, Les H -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
