On 06/16/14 00:27, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 06/09/2014 06:00 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:59:15AM +0200, Jan Zelený wrote:
>>> till October) will give folks plenty of time to hone their dnf skills.
>>> IMO, for many (majority?) it will be a drop-in replacement for yum.
>> Yes, that's the plan. There are some differences but they are all well
>> documented.
> Is the plan to actually rename dnf to yum at that point? If it is truly a
> drop-in replacement, that seems like the less disruptive approach for users
> (and scripts) everywhere.
>
> Additionally, in remembrance of Seth Vidal, I would hate to see Fedora lose
> 'yum'. Even if Seth would probably find that silly, it's important to
me.
>
+1
Let us keep at least the name, if not the code. I have been a happy user
of yum, and have observed it to be innovative enough.
By the way, 'dnf erase kernel' scares me :-O
[root@box10 bobg]# dnf update
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
and then:
[root@box10 bobg]# yum update
Loaded plugins: ... snip ,,,
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================================================================================
Package Arch Version
Repository Size
=============================================================================================================================================
Updating:
NetworkManager x86_64
1:0.9.9.0-39.git20131003.fc20 updates 1.2 M
NetworkManager-glib x86_64
1:0.9.9.0-39.git20131003.fc20 updates 348 k
ghostscript x86_64 9.14-3.fc20
updates 4.4 M
gnome-abrt x86_64 0.3.7-1.fc20
updates 213 k
qt x86_64 1:4.8.6-9.fc20
updates 4.7 M
qt-x11 x86_64 1:4.8.6-9.fc20
updates 13 M
thunderbird x86_64 24.6.0-1.fc20
updates 45 M
yumex noarch 3.0.15-1.fc20
updates 431 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================================================================================
Upgrade 8 Packages
Total download size: 68 M
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
So there is still a considerable difference in what each of them does here,
Bob
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