Fedora 22 will use DNF instead of yum

szboardstretcher · 06-19-2014, 12:25 PM

All voted in favor of replacing yum with DNF.

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipe...ne/200149.html

syg00 · 06-19-2014, 09:41 PM

This one might cause some interesting problems ...

Quote:

dnf erase kernel deletes all packages called kernel

In Yum, the running kernel is spared. There is no reason to keep this in DNF

szboardstretcher · 06-20-2014, 08:58 AM

Weird,. DNF is a fork of yum x.x, so they had to have added that. Why!?

Ztcoracat · 07-09-2014, 03:43 AM

More on DNF.
Hope it doesn't make things complicated-

http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/

syg00 · 07-09-2014, 07:57 AM

Yeah, that's where I got my quote. I've used that command to clean up my testing kernels - I can see a

moment coming in future.
The Fedora devs have been giving me the shits lately with some of their decisions - might be time to go back to Arch for my day-to-day system(s).

szboardstretcher · 07-09-2014, 08:05 AM

They (fedora) announced some time recently that the project leader just changed .. might have something to do with the new direction?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Project_Leader

I don't like the name of the new package manager. DNF in my industry means 'Do Not Finish' which just seems to be ... sort of an ill omen.

schneidz · 07-09-2014, 08:35 AM

dnf = did not find ?

winja · 07-25-2015, 10:39 PM

so, they decided to change yum to dnf....there some logical reason for this? do these guys know that change is bad 99.99999999% of the time? considering they could have chosen any combination of letters they chose yum a long time ago....why change it now? will yum still work? will dnf install "X" be the correct string now? this is foolish!

syg00 · 07-25-2015, 10:49 PM

Just alias yum to dnf.

Virneto · 07-25-2015, 10:54 PM

Are you guys doing your homework?

dnf stands for nothing.

It aims to improve yum, and as far as I can see, It does!.

Best regards!

syg00 · 07-25-2015, 11:08 PM

I use it daily, and also yum. I don't see what dnf adds to make my day easier.
Just today I had to "dnf clean all" to get an update to chrome to go through on F22. Same as the old name.