On 18 January 2016 at 01:32, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek@in.waw.pl wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:55:54AM +0100, Heiko Adams wrote:
But it seems to be broken since Feb 2015, which is IMHO unacceptable since a default package manager and all of its features have to work absolutely reliable.
When was the last time you saw a program bigger then /bin/true that was "absolutely reliable"? Your implicit premise that yum was bug free is completely bogus, just look for yum bugs in bugzilla [1].
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Being reliable might be difficult, but it is achievable, and the more core a tool is the more important it is that it approaches reliability.
It seems that with dnf we are currently in the phase of fine-tuning user interaction. The resolver works nicely, there is a growing system of plugins based on a stable API, the codebase was ported to the current version of python, speed is decent most of the time... There *are* things to fix, but calling for the return of yum is a complete waste of the time of everbody on this list.
So there's no need to fight hyperbole with hyperbole.