On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Dan Thurman <d...@cdkkt.com> wrote: > ok, so update is a depreciated alias, so upgrade it is!
Back in the day `yum upgrade` was the equivalent of `yum update --obsoletes`, which means that if a package has been renamed or replaced, you'd get the new version, whereas a plain `yum update` would not replace those packages. This was rather confusing, and approximately nobody doesn't want Obsoletes to work when updating, so they were later unified to follow the `yum upgrade` behavior, but the `yum update` syntax was kept since that was burned into many peoples' skulls. dnf is intended to replace yum, and one day in the not too distant future people will be running `yum update` and be none the wiser that it is actually what we now call dnf doing the work. So dnf must inherit all yum's little weird oddities, which means `(yum|dnf) upgrade` and `(yum|dnf) update` will probably do the same thing until on or about the heat death of the universe. So, there's no need to change your muscle memory if you don't want to. ;-) -T.C. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
