On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 10:37 PM, Tomasz Torcz <tomek@pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 05:49:39PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 02:37:07PM -0700, Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> > If we're keeping both commands, I don't really care - but to make
> > sure I'm understanding this, we're proposing to eliminate the yum
> > code, create a symlink for yum pointing to dnf and then change our
> > documentation to no longer reference dnf - only reference yum?
>
> That's my suggestion, although "no longer reference dnf" is a bit
> strong. We'd use `yum` as the standard command in documentation about
> package management, but detailed documentation would talk about "yum
> powered by dnf".

  After half a decade of using dnf? It's aready ingrained in my muscle
memory and some of my ansible scripts.  Flipping the name of most
important command every few years is really counter-productive, yum→dnf
transition was painful enough. I'm against inflicting such self-harm
again.

If you read the above, the DNF code isn't being changed or replaced.  It will
still be there and in fact, YUM will only be a symlink pointing to DNF.  That does
raise the question though of what will happen when you enter:  yum --help or man
yum.  Since we're using "powered by DNF", I would assume it would still reference DNF.

I believe in a round about way, they are just saying that they don't want to change
all the documentation that references YUM.