[CentOS] dnf replacing yum?
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.netWed May 25 17:52:31 UTC 2016
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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.
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