DNF: The New Package Manager Of Fedora 18

[phoronix]

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...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTEyNDc

[leif81]

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.

[chrisr]

I thought DNF was shorthand for "Did Not Finish"

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

[anonymous]

^ HA! I thought it was Duke Nukem Forever.

[disi]

^ HA! I thought it was Duke Nukem Forever.

Do they say somewhere, what it stands for?

[anonymous]

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.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF#Naming

[uid313]

Other distributions

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

[ejs1920]

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

[smitty3268]

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.