On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 13:54, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 12:11:04PM -0600, David G. Miller wrote: > > "ip" should be used instead. Likewise for using dnf instead of yum, > > systemctl instead of service, firewallcmd instead of iptables, etc. > > I wonder how many shell scripts there are "out there" that folks > > have written or accumulated over the years and which now need to be > > updated before deprecated becomes no longer available? Or, like > > With the case of DNF and Yum, the RHEL team put in considerable work into > making sure that the new DNF-based 'yum' command is a drop-in replacement > for the vast majority of those scripts. I think that the complaint should be that yum/dnf are not even what a real Unix would use. We should only get giant UUencoded patch files (and even then it may really just need to be tapes) -- Stephen J Smoogen.