I have yet to port my scripts (https://bitbucket.org/znmeb/osjourno) from 'yum' to 'dnf'. I'm not sure I am going to unless the live ISO creation tools also switch. But I have tried both 'dnf' and 'yum' manually during the F21 alpha and beta test phases. I think there were cases where 'yum' said there were updates and 'dnf' didn't. And it seemed like 'dnf' was slower. My main use case is 'yum update' - I rarely use the Software tool on the desktop. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Radek Holy <rholy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear users of YUM and DNF, > > I'm writing to you regarding a request for your feedback. I would be very grateful if you could send me a brief description of how you use YUM or DNF currently or how would you like to use it. I am particularly interested in the occurrences of "dnf/yum install" calls in your scripts. What does these scripts do and what do they expect when they call the "install" command in different situations? > > Please share with me the use cases, not the description of the "install" command. Think twice before you share something because I believe it's not as easy as it might seem. As an example I think it might be something like: > > - "I call YUM install, because I want to get given packages into my system and I don't care whether it requires an upgrade or downgrade or what." or > - "I want to get them there but it should protect me against dangerous operations like downgrades" or > - "I often make typos, so I expect that the program knows what I mean" or > - "it would be nice if it would literally perform the installation; if any of the packages cannot be installed because of any reason, it should fail". > > Not something like: "that's obvious that the install command should never downgrade packages". > > Please focus on *use cases*. The *real* (non-hypothetical) use cases. Not on the command's name as it might also result in a new command (while preserving the well-known install command together with an appropriate behaviour). > > I don't mind if you send it offlist (or to another list). I think there is no need to comment on anyone's use case. Every case is valid. Just not every case can be supported. > > Thank you very much in advance. > -- > Radek Holý > Associate Software Engineer > Software Management Team > Red Hat Czech > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; OSJourno: Robust Power Tools for Digital Journalists https://osjourno.com Remember, if you're traveling to Bactria, Hump Day is Tuesday and Thursday. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
