[CentOS] DNF update

Keith Keller kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
Thu Sep 8 02:02:09 UTC 2016


On 2016-09-08, Always Learning <centos at u68.u22.net> wrote:
>
> In any single version of Centos there is only one YUM. Having multiple
> and incompatible versions of Yum in the same software release is
> bonkers.

Fedora is the place to try out bonkers stuff.  If RedHat is satisfied
with dnf then they will include it and not yum in RHELN.  Maybe they
will make yum an alias to dnf, who knows.  But whatever they do it's
much less likely to be bonkers.

> Everyone knows Yum but DNF (something to do with DNS ?)

Who knew yum before Yellow Dog Linux?

> Nein danke.
> Nee takk.
> Alstublieft niet voor mij,
>
> Staying with excellent C6 until the end.

CentOS 7 is yum based, not dnf.

--keith

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