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I'm with droidhacker on this one. The whole point and purpose of creating DNF instead of just using zypper is that DNF wouldn't break peoples scripts and workflow, because it would be renamed to yum and have the same command interface when finished. Doing this is completely contradictory to those goals and quite stupid honestly. They should stick to the original plan, unless the developer wants to tell us this was actually a NIH project all along, in which case Fedora should have just transitioned over to zypper.
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostI'm with droidhacker on this one. The whole point and purpose of creating DNF instead of just using zypper is that DNF wouldn't break peoples scripts and workflow, because it would be renamed to yum and have the same command interface when finished. Doing this is completely contradictory to those goals and quite stupid honestly. They should stick to the original plan, unless the developer wants to tell us this was actually a NIH project all along, in which case Fedora should have just transitioned over to zypper.
Moving to zypper would throw all backwards compatibility out the window. At least with dnf they can maintain some level of BC.All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by Ericg View Posthttps://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Featu..._zif.2Fzypp.3F
Moving to zypper would throw all backwards compatibility out the window. At least with dnf they can maintain some level of BC.
Either :
A). DNF is a drop-in replacement for yum, and really yum-ng, and so it should have the name and command interface of yum and they shouldn't be playing around with these kinds of scripts period.
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B). DNF is not a drop-in replacement and as a result they should have just used zypper instead.
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostYou new to Phoronix, Espionage, or just don't check regularly? I ask because Michael is pretty on-top of DNF news so it'd take a lot to not know it existed
I did hear of DNF before, but I never really looked into it or knew what it did specifically (I wasn't really a Fedora user until recently).
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Originally posted by Luke_Wolf View PostExcept that backwards compatibility goes out the door, if "yum" is just going to be a script saying it's deprecated and to use DNF instead.
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Originally posted by droidhacker View Post
Did you ever tried that routine?Last edited by edmon; 08 April 2015, 03:09 AM.
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Originally posted by RahulSundaram View PostThat is not what the script does. It has a message in front saying yum is deprecated but it also automatically redirects to dnf. So it works more like an alias. This maintains backward compatibility for the most part (dnf and yum have *mostly* similar options but it is not 100%) while allowing a transition period. This is pretty similar to how service command in Fedora redirects to systemctl automatically.
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