On 05/25/16 16:38, Timothy Murphy wrote:> Kenneth Porter wrote: > >> I saw mention of dnf in a blog article about installing a package on >> CentOS. Further investigation revealed that Fedora is replacing yum with >> dnf, apparently a new and better yum. But it wasn't clear if dnf was a > For the normal user (like me) dnf is neither better nor worse than yum. > In fact it is almost identical. > > In my view, the introduction of a new name was completely unnecessary > and the cause of the only (small) complication with the changeover, > eg should I look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ or /etc/dnf.repos.d/ ? > > Also, yum had associations which it was sad to lose. >Hear, hear .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
Kenneth Porter wrote:> I saw mention of dnf in a blog article about installing a package on > CentOS. Further investigation revealed that Fedora is replacing yum with > dnf, apparently a new and better yum. But it wasn't clear if dnf was aFor the normal user (like me) dnf is neither better nor worse than yum. In fact it is almost identical. In my view, the introduction of a new name was completely unnecessary and the cause of the only (small) complication with the changeover, eg should I look in /etc/yum.repos.d/ or /etc/dnf.repos.d/ ? Also, yum had associations which it was sad to lose. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 22:32 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:> Also, yum had associations which it was sad to lose.Perhaps the Fedora ("We love consulting all affected users") replacement could be named MUD. Now we await the System-D controlling interface ;-) -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
On 05/25/2016 06:43 PM, Always Learning wrote:> > On Wed, 2016-05-25 at 22:32 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Also, yum had associations which it was sad to lose. > > Perhaps the Fedora ("We love consulting all affected users") replacement > could be named MUD. > > Now we await the System-D controlling interface ;-) > > > >There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when these changes rolled into Fedora. After a while, I got used to it and now it seems normal. Plus, if you type "yum update" it responds "what your really should type is dnf update, but I'll do it for you anyway". -- -- Steve