On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Ben Cotton <bcot...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:02 AM Daniel Mach <dm...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> This makes sense. Let me ask from another angle: does Fedora lose
> anything from not using the current dnf history algorithm (apart from
> the discontinuity when we switch)? Would it make sense to have that be
> a configurable option where Fedora defaults to the dnf model and RHEL
> defaults to the yum model or is it essentially a cosmetic difference?
>
To me, it's more a cosmetic difference and I don't think it deserves a
configurable option for switching the behavior.
It is more important to unify the behavior, document it and cover with
tests.
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