On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 10:51 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 15:33 +0200, Ales Kozumplik wrote:
>> On 06/19/2012 02:44 PM, MichaĆ Piotrowski wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a question about DNF
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF
>>>
>>> Are there any plans to replace yum with dnf in the future?
>>>
>>> According to what is written here
>>>
https://github.com/akozumpl/dnf/wiki/Features-Considered-for-Dropping
>>> history function will likely be dropped.
>>>
>>> From my POV history feature is very useful. Is there a plan to provide
>>> history function in Fedora dnf if yum gets dropped?
>>>
>>
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out. I considered history a candidate for
>> dropping because I didn't realize people had usecases for it. It is not
>> present in the early versions of DNF but I will make sure to put it back
>> in later.
>
> Just to add my voice to the choir, I use it extensively and I suspect
> many others in QA group too. It's extremely useful when trying to
> determine exactly what update caused a given problem.
> --
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+1 - I too use the history function of yum quite a bit.
And it is an absolutely critical component for sysadmin-side of things.
Being able to quickly search to see when/who/what messed with pkg X makes
tracking down changes a lot simpler.
-sv