On Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:50:16 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> Personally I find "install"/"update" naming more readable than > >> "-Uvh"/"-Fvh". > > > > Note that -U and -F aren't meant to be readable. They're shorthand for > > "--upgrade" and for "--freshen" respectively > > but it's unexpected behavior that -U *installs* packages instead only > _U_pgrade installed ones while nobody ever searchs for "freshen"
If an _upgrade_ introduces new sub-packages or new dependencies, you need a method that can install those new packages *and* update older installed ones at the same time. Running "rpm -U *.rpm" is like asking RPM to "upgrade the installation to the packages specified by *.rpm", which may involve replacing older installed ones as well as adding new packages to the installation. To squeeze a similar feature into "dnf install *.rpm" would be odd as long as "dnf update …" still accepts local package files, too. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
