[CentOS] dnf replacing yum?

[Timothy Murphy]

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.

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Timothy Murphy  
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School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin