DNF5 delayed

Posted Aug 24, 2023 19:07 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669)
In reply to: DNF5 delayed by rsidd
Parent article: DNF5 delayed

> Debian recently celebrated 30 years, and dpkg and apt haven't undergone incompatible changes for, I think, at least 20 of those years?
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> If it works, fix what doesn't work but why change it?

To finally catch up with Debian? :)

> Is python really the bottleneck here

I don’t know whether it’s a performance bottleneck but requiring even a subset of the python in a core tool is problematic for small systems and containers. We use microdnf in container builds to avoid dnf/yum/python, but it can creep back in via other routes (in particular at the moment, crypto-policies-scripts is a hard dep of nss, necessary for FIPS and is a python script)