On 01/02/2014 02:01 PM, Jan Zelený wrote:
On 2. 1. 2014 at 13:32:23, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Ales Kozumplik wrote:
>> On behalf of the DNF team I'd like to invite all the interested Fedora
>> users in trying out and testing DNF in Fedora 20. DNF is a tool that
>> aims to fully replace Yum by Fedora 22.
>
> Yum works perfectly well, in my experience.
> The problems you discuss are never met by the average user (like me),
> who simply use "yum update" and "yum install".
>
> By all means introduce an alternative,
> but please leave yum for those who are satisfied with it.
> Not another grub2, please.
It's actually going to be the other way around - yum will be an alternative to
dnf. The thing is that yum will soon enter maintenance mode
Says who and has
decided who?
If Fedora was an openly lead project, a yum competitor such as dnf would
be evaluated against yum and a decision be drawn at an arbitrary future
point in time.
Ralf