Dne 25. 10. 22 v 14:00 Jaroslav Mracek napsal(a):
That is nice, but honestly who reads man pages? And especially who reads
man pages of SW they are not using (assuming that the manpage will be
part of DNF5 and not DNF).
Thank you for very much for a good point. We already played with this topic for DNF but
that game was primary focused for RHEL and required by RHEL, therefore it was delivered to
Fedora after many users already accepted DNF. If you type `man yum` you will get man pages
for DNF with note that ` yum - redirecting to DNF Command Reference`. I think that this
kind of approach can be used also for DNF5. You can also try `yum --help` and you will see
`usage: yum [options] COMMAND`. Please all of those examples requires `yum` package
installed.
I understand that deprecation warning has their own issues, but if you
already put some thoughts into that topic, I'd like you to elaborate
more then just provide statements like above.
DNF in early versions (1.1) provided a warning when `yum` was called. It was nice and
transparent way how to send a message about redirection to DNF, but we got very strong
negative feedback about that, therefore we removed it. I don't think we should repeat
that approach. Personally I don't feel comfortable with education of our users using
warnings, because they have value at first occurrence but then they are annoying.
Vít
Jaroslav