On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:32 AM Samuel Rakitničan <srakitnican@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Please don't tie the name with the particular software to avoid this issue in the future. If you must then I think rpm.repos.d is less likely to avoid this issue in the future. +1 Just like a few others have mentioned in this thread, I too consider the choice of "dnf" for a package manager quite unfortunate. It does not really stand for anything (except for the notorious Did Not Finish). For the same reasons why "systemd" or any other basic system utilities are not named after some random spur-of-the-moment sequence of characters or words, *the* package manager on a UNIX-like system, something that's really at the core of system administration, should also prefer a sensible name such as "pkg" or similar. In case of "dnf", I understand that one of the reasons was to make it easy to touch-type, which it is (as opposed to "yum"), but that quality is not in contradiction with the choice of a more descriptive (yet short and simple) name. The name is fine for an experimental project but those days are long gone and dnf is now the de-facto successor of yum. That said, if we should pick a different name today, "yum" seems like the most sensible choice. While still far from ideal, it has stickiness within the Fedora/RHEL community, and is a "trademark", really. -- Michal Domonkos Software Engineer, DNF stack Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
