Re: [CentOS] dnf replacing yum?

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.