> > What's the benefit in changing to be compatible with YUM as opposed > to stickin with current alogorithm ? > If a user migrates from RHEL 7 to the next version of RHEL (or CentOS), there will be continuity in used algorithm and history db checksums. It's important to some enterprise customers to keep the history db in a good shape. Fedora users don't care about that much in general.
> Surely if we don't change it, even fewer users will notice that DNF's > behaviour is different from YUM's, since DNF has been the default for > many releases now. > > I could understand the motiviation to stay compatible with YUM if we > were only just about to switch Fedora from YUM to DNF, but time is > way in the past now. Shouldn't we optimize for the fact that DNF is > the more widely deployed & used tool, and thus not worry about > YUM compatibility in respect of the history DB ? > Unfortunately RHEL knows nothing about DNF yet and it's YUM compatibility what matters.
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