On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 13:34 +1000, Jeff Fearn wrote: > On 5/10/2016 12:36, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Adam Williamson writes: > > > > > All dnf's 'nice features' aren't really there for a system update, are > > > they? > > > > > > Well what are they there for, then? > > > > > You can use all of its nice features for doing other things. > > > > > > Like what? I thought that the only thing dnf does is update the system. > > Oh, yeah, sure you can query metadata on available packages too. > > > I think there is a misunderstanding here on the use of "system". > > I believe Adam is saying that upgrading packages for the underlying OS > is where the problem is, but you can upgrade packages in other layers of > the OS fine. > > e.g. upgrading glibc can be an issue, upgrading vi should be fine. > > Upgrading emacs is undefined. No, that's not what I meant. I was replying to Gerald's post (though I missed quoting the relevant bit, which led to some confusion): "The DNF team has done an excellent job in obfuscating the horror IMO because (knock on wood) I've always been very impressed with the features and functionality. Seems a shame that all those nice bells and whistles will now be hidden behind some gui or pkcon." I was just confused as to what 'features and functionality' would be 'hidden' by a GUI or pkcon in the case of doing a system update, since I can't really think what 'features and functionality' you really use when running dnf update. -- 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 To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
