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Re: HACKING: suggest use of dnf, not yum
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: HACKING: suggest use of dnf, not yum |
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Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:36:23 +0100 |
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On 24/06/16 02:34, Jim Meyering wrote:
> What do you think?
> If someone is reading HACKING, they should be prepared to use dnf
> rather than "yum", and should be able to adapt when they're using a
> version of Fedora that is so old that "dnf" does not exist.
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> This patch also updates install --help to insert mention of "dnf"
> before that of "yum".
Well Fedora-based means Centos/RHEL too which are much more popular
and currently don't have dnf installed by default.
Also `yum install blah` should always work:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2015-April/209580.html
cheers,
Pádraig