On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:50 PM Jose Mathew Manimala <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello Nadav,
>
>
>
> Good day to you.
>
> The fundamental difference is that RHEL and Centos are Long Term Support
> versions and usually run on a LTS build of yum.
>
> On recent builds of Fedora based distributions, dnf the new package
> manager is the norm.
>
>
>
> yum swap A B is the equivalent in the new world dnf install –allowearsing
> package.
>
>
>
> The same switch is also exposed through yum on newer releases(yum passes
> on calls to dnf).
>
> This is why fundamentally, RHEL and Centos package management will lag
> behind Fedora.
>
>
>
> My reasoning for overriding the install variable was
>
>    1. to provide a cleaner parameter list availability for RHEL and
>    Centos, In case there are many incompatible flags in the future.
>    2. We could also, as you have suggested, refactor the individual
>    versions, but I don’t have context to which versions of Fedora,
>
> So, as I noted, this flag was only needed for the
"compact-openssl10-devel" package, so it's only needed for the Fedora
versions which add this package.
In the future, it would be great if we could drop both this package, and
the flag.  The reason for this package is explained in commit
af16f934ab795e607e3041dc707dbcd7ea4a7229.

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