If dnf is no improvement, then I'd rather we stick with yum; messing with something new just means spending time that I don't have trying to learn that new command. This is incredibly cumbersome. If at all possible, please stay with yum. On Nov 12, 2012 10:53 AM, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
> Seth Vidal wrote: > > Yum will likely be replaced with dnf afaik. I don't think zif is under > > consideration at all. > > That's exactly what I'm complaining about. Dnf is no improvement over yum > at > all, zif would bring real advantages through the simple fact that it's > native code, not Python. Native C code is faster, requires less memory and > is less likely to break when the system is broken (and thus more likely to > be usable to repair it). Zif also interoperates much better with PackageKit > (on which our package management UIs, gnome-packagekit and Apper, are > based), being implemented in the same language by the same primary > developer > and designed with PackageKit in mind (whereas yum happily breaks APIs used > by PackageKit, see e.g. the repo.str() case; apparently, you don't even > test > your changes with PackageKit!). > > Kevin Kofler > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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