On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 15:06 -0500, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > It's a terrible name for anyone who knows motor racing: it
> > indicates
> > a total failure.
> What is wrong with the Linux world that prevents it from using human
> readable packag
On 12/10/2015 04:51 AM, Tim wrote:
Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Ralf Corsepius sent:
My view: The only thing that was wrong with yum, was it being
work-in-progress, when its maintainer passed away.
One hopes that something as central as the updating/installing tool
would be (a) wo
On 10 December 2015 at 14:44, Ian Malone wrote:
> On 10 December 2015 at 11:51, Tim wrote:
>> Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Ralf Corsepius sent:
>>> My view: The only thing that was wrong with yum, was it being
>>> work-in-progress, when its maintainer passed away.
>>
>> One hopes that
On 10 December 2015 at 11:51, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Ralf Corsepius sent:
>> My view: The only thing that was wrong with yum, was it being
>> work-in-progress, when its maintainer passed away.
>
> One hopes that something as central as the updating/installing tool
>
On 10. 12. 2015 at 22:21:42, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Ralf Corsepius sent:
> > My view: The only thing that was wrong with yum, was it being
> > work-in-progress, when its maintainer passed away.
>
> One hopes that something as central as the updating/installing tool
>
Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Ralf Corsepius sent:
> My view: The only thing that was wrong with yum, was it being
> work-in-progress, when its maintainer passed away.
One hopes that something as central as the updating/installing tool
would be (a) worked on by more than one person, a
Tim wrote:
>> As acronyms go, I think it's an odd one, too. DNF in sporting parlance
>> means did not finish. To other people, it might mean do not f**k.
Joe Zeff:
> Why couldn't you spell out fork properly. Or were you referring to fsck?
I left it so people could use whatever f**k word they w
This is the rationale I was told:
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Will-DNF-Replace-Yum
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On Dec 9, 2015 4:17 AM, "Junayeed Ahnaf" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I haven’t been using Fedora for a while (2+ years) and yesterday I
installed fedora on dad’s computer and see that they replaced yum with dnf.
Now the question is why was this done ? And who names their package manager
as “DNF” ? T
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> It's a terrible name for anyone who knows motor racing: it indicates
> a total failure.
>
What is wrong with the Linux world that prevents it from using human
readable package names that indicate its FUNCTION?
Fedora-package-manager was not
On 12/09/2015 12:37 PM, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
What's interesting to me, is that you cannot compile the very last working yum
and expect it to build and work flawlessly in in fc22 and later.
THAT is more upsetting to me than the issues/problems in dnf.
Why is that? What’s the problem ? Any spec
>
What's interesting to me, is that you cannot compile the very last working yum
and expect it to build and work flawlessly in in fc22 and later.
THAT is more upsetting to me than the issues/problems in dnf.
>
Why is that? What’s the problem ? Any specific library it is built against
became non s
On 12/09/2015 11:47 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 12/09/2015 07:33 PM, jd1008 wrote:
On 12/09/2015 11:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/09/2015 03:21 AM, Tim wrote:
As acronyms go, I think it's an odd one, too. DNF in sporting
parlance
means did not finish. To other people, it might mean do n
On 12/09/2015 11:31 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 16:17 +0600, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
>> I haven't been using Fedora for a while (2+ years) and yesterday I
>> installed
>> fedora on dad's computer and see that they replaced yum with dnf. Now
>> the
>> question is why was thi
On 12/09/2015 07:33 PM, jd1008 wrote:
On 12/09/2015 11:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/09/2015 03:21 AM, Tim wrote:
As acronyms go, I think it's an odd one, too. DNF in sporting parlance
means did not finish. To other people, it might mean do not f**k.
Why couldn't you spell out fork properl
-boun...@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of jd1008
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 12:34 AM
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: Why was YUM removed
On 12/09/2015 11:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 12/09/2015 03:21 AM, Tim wrote:
>> As acronyms go, I think it's a
On 12/09/2015 11:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 12/09/2015 03:21 AM, Tim wrote:
As acronyms go, I think it's an odd one, too. DNF in sporting parlance
means did not finish. To other people, it might mean do not f**k.
Why couldn't you spell out fork properly. Or were you referring to fsck?
Se
On 12/09/2015 03:21 AM, Tim wrote:
As acronyms go, I think it's an odd one, too. DNF in sporting parlance
means did not finish. To other people, it might mean do not f**k.
Why couldn't you spell out fork properly. Or were you referring to fsck?
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On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:31:14 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > as "DNF"
> > ? The name seems pretty weird to be honest.
>
> No wierder than YUM (Yellow-dog Updater Modified)
Well, it had started as a modified "yup" (the Yellow Dog Linux Updater),
but it's certainly weird to keep the name
On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 16:17 +0600, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
> I haven't been using Fedora for a while (2+ years) and yesterday I
> installed
> fedora on dad's computer and see that they replaced yum with dnf. Now
> the
> question is why was this done ? And who names their package manager
> as "DNF"
>
Allegedly, on or about 09 December 2015, Junayeed Ahnaf sent:
> And who names their package manager as “DNF” ? The name seems pretty
> weird to be honest.
As acronyms go, I think it's an odd one, too. DNF in sporting parlance
means did not finish. To other people, it might mean do not f**k.
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> http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/user_faq.html
and: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF#Detailed_Description
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On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 16:17:00 +0600, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I haven't been using Fedora for a while (2+ years) and yesterday I installed
> fedora on dad's computer and see that they replaced yum with dnf. Now the
> question is why was this done ? And who names their package mana
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