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DNF, which may or may not replace Yum

DNF, which may or may not replace Yum

Posted Jun 28, 2012 16:44 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263)
In reply to: DNF, which may or may not replace Yum by niner
Parent article: DNF, which may or may not replace Yum

>Imagine Fedora and openSUSE moving closer and bundling their resources to work on the same package manager.

There was an effort to offer zypper as an installable:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447740
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729200
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=729201

Sadly, as so often happens in the Fedora realm, bugs are left languishing due to lack of interest, time, or support coverage ("uh, custom partitioning in the text install is not supported") to receive the necessary mentoring.

Well. RH-F-originating software is often regarded highly, and then perhaps integrated (systemd, sssd). But I wonder why this generally does not seem to work in the reverse direction :-/ Using libsolv is nice, but seems like a consolation prize for not going the route of modifying zypper.


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