The other thing I've noticed is "man dnf.conf" and "man dnf5.conf" appear to be identical. I've
also noticed that "man dnf.conf-todo" and "man dnf5.conf-todo" appear to produce the same results.
ls -l /usr/bin/dnf or readlink /usr/bin/dnf show dnf is linked to dnf5
Yes, I understood that but I also thought that dnf5 had expanded
functionality over what dnf provided before that upgrade, hence I would
have expected "man dnf5.conf" to provide doco on that expanded
functionality, although having said that it is perfectly reasonable for
dnf.conf to be a link to dnf5.conf in the same way dnf is a link to
dnf5, just for backwards compatibility.
Looking at the Github doco there are links throughout the doco that look like
they might supply format examples of what needs to be specified, but when they
are clicked on they change the address in the browser address bar and do
nothing, should that be reported?
That looks like it's used for
https://dnf5.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dnf5.conf.5.html#main-options-colors
so I don't think so. This is also a good place to reference.
Also with man command you provided how do we know that the information you
referenced exists so that we can go and check for ourself without the need for
someone to tell us that it exists, do we have to trawl through the man package
contents to see that it has installed that doco?
man -k dnf.conf shows it, but it isn't really intuitive.
Thankyou. Until you provided that man command I didn't know that
documentation existed to get an idea of what is future planned, hence
the question of how would we know it existed, which as a side issue,
applies to all documentation in Fedora. How does newby users like me
know what documentation does exist?
The other question I had on the dnf color scheme was, in F42 packages to
be installed/upgraded were display in "Bold, green" as they are in dnf5,
I don't remember dnf showing the names of packages being replaced like
dnf5 does which it displays in white, and in the same list with the
version of packages that are being installed/upgraded to those version
numbers display as a mixture of cyan and white and I've never been able
to understand why. Also when kernels are being upgraded, in F42 dnf used
to display the names of the kernels being removed in Red but in F43 they
are displayed in the same green as the rest of the packages even though
the option that I thought controlled that specifies "Dim, red" as the
default color. Having said this though there has been a situation where
I was deliberately uninstalling a package that also uninstalled
dependent a packages and those dependent packages being removed were
displayed in Red, so I'm at a loss to try to understand, for the man
doco, what options and colors are relevant to what I'm seeing being
displayed by dnf when I use it.
regards,
-Joe
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