DNF: The New Package Manager Of Fedora 18

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  • phoronix
    Administrator
    • Jan 2007
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    DNF: The New Package Manager Of Fedora 18

    Phoronix: DNF: The New Package Manager Of Fedora 18

    As mentioned earlier this week, Fedora 18 will feature a new package manager. Here's a redux with some additional information on DNF...

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  • leif81
    Senior Member
    • Dec 2009
    • 150

    #2
    What's the concern with just making these radical changes for yum 4.0? Fedora has got to be the largest yum user. Why isn't someone at Redhat/Fedora stepping up and just setting the direction for yum instead of forking it.

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    • chrisr
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2007
      • 525

      #3
      I thought DNF was shorthand for "Did Not Finish"

      That would seem to be an unfortunate name for a package manager.

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      • anonymous
        Junior Member
        • Aug 2010
        • 17

        #4
        ^ HA! I thought it was Duke Nukem Forever.

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        • disi
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2009
          • 379

          #5
          Originally posted by anonymous View Post
          ^ HA! I thought it was Duke Nukem Forever.
          Do they say somewhere, what it stands for?

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          • anonymous
            Junior Member
            • Aug 2010
            • 17

            #6
            Originally posted by disi View Post
            Do they say somewhere, what it stands for?
            Note about the name "DNF": it has no relevant meaning, meant as a project name only. Since DNF is a tech preview in Fedora 18 the Python module names can not be 'yum.*' as that would clash with yum itself.

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            • uid313
              Senior Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 6922

              #7
              Other distributions

              This DNF package manager can be used on openSUSE, Gentoo and Ubuntu too?

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              • ejs1920
                Phoronix Member
                • Dec 2007
                • 54

                #8
                I expect I'll be sticking with using the rpm command directly then.

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                • smitty3268
                  Senior Member
                  • Oct 2008
                  • 6965

                  #9
                  Originally posted by leif81 View Post
                  What's the concern with just making these radical changes for yum 4.0? Fedora has got to be the largest yum user. Why isn't someone at Redhat/Fedora stepping up and just setting the direction for yum instead of forking it.
                  That's exactly what they're doing, they just gave the beta a new name so people could test it more easily.

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