On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 09:31:17AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > On 13. 6. 2014 at 10:09:07, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 09:38:40AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > > > On 12. 6. 2014 at 10:54:45, DJ Delorie wrote: > > > > > Nothing will change for you, the yum command will still exist for a > > > > > few more Fedora releases, > > > > > > > > Which only postpones the problem. > > > > > > > > > just as the `service` command that was superseded by systemctl > like > > > > > 5 releases of Fedora ago exists. > > > > > > > > Which is currently annoying me, for the same reason. > > > > > > I'm sorry you feel this way. Most of the people I talked to are quite > > > happy > > > how this transition was handled. That's why I consider it a good strategy > > > for dnf as well. If you have any other suggestions other than keeping the > > > name, we will be open to consider them. > > > > The command name doesn't have to match the project name. E.g. just > > look at the ImageMagick package--there are tons of generic command > > names that don't mention "ImageMagick" (or any abbreviation thereof) > > > > in their names: > > >rpm -ql ImageMagick|grep bin > > > > /usr/bin/animate > > /usr/bin/compare > > /usr/bin/composite > > /usr/bin/conjure > > /usr/bin/convert > > /usr/bin/display > > /usr/bin/identify > > /usr/bin/import > > /usr/bin/mogrify > > /usr/bin/montage > > /usr/bin/stream > > > > So I propose we keep calling the project DNF and the package dnf, but > > start the transition to a generic command name for "the tool that > > installs, removes, and updates packages". I propose that this command > > name be called "pkg". We can keep backwards compatibility to both the > > "yum" command name and the "dnf" command name indefinitely. > > Sounds like an interesting idea and we will definitely give this some thought. > It needs some more work thought to see if it makes sense. For example what > would you say should be the correlation between the pkg command and DNF's > Python API? What I mean is which of these two would you say is better if we go > for this "neutral" command? > > import dnf > > - or - > > import pkg I don't think the programmer's API needs to be changed. It can stay dnf if you want. All I care about in this discussion is the User Interface. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
