On 04/18/2016 09:29 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Yes, dnf would have been a good time for this. I can only guess
early
on something important switching over to dnf blew up spectacularly
without it, and it was easier to put in a backward compatible
deprecated subcommand than fight reality.
Actually, the easiest thing would have been to make update and upgrade
execute the same code, so that people could use whichever they preferred
without having to maintain two chunks of code that do essentially the
same thing.