Re: Safe to remove yum?

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On Sun, 4 Nov 2018, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 8:59 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> <dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday, 03 November 2018 at 21:10, Neal Gompa wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 4:10 PM Scott Talbert <swt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Doing a 'dnf autoremove' after upgrading to F29, yum is one of the
>>>> packages it wants to remove.  Is it safe to remove yum these days?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes. Things pretty much don't use yum anymore.
>>
>> Unless you're building packages for EPEL locally using mock,
>> but then you can use mock --dnf.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dominik
>
> RHEL and CentOS do not support DNF features like "Suggests:". Always
> using dnf and dnf features is a good way to make packages that cannot
> be compiled natively on RHEL or CentOS. Those van be excluded out of
> the configs, but I find it safer to discover those when doing "mock"
> builds.

I suspect that isn't quite true any more as dnf is a Technology Preview 
with yum 4 in RHEL 7.6.

 	Michael Young
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