DNF 3.0 Development Has Started For Linux Package Management

[phoronix]

Phoronix: DNF 3.0 Development Has Started For Linux Package Management

While the Yum-successor DNF package manager most commonly associated with Fedora just had its DNF 2.0 release at the end of 2016, DNF 3.0 is now under development...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=DNF-3.0-Under-Development

[GunpowaderGuy]

How much would dnf benefit from being free of memory management related bugs ?

[Tomin]

migrating C code to C++.

Whaaat?! Not Rust?

Sorry, I had to...

[Guest]

I'm not sure I want to use software called DNF

[zboszor]

I'm not sure I want to use software called DNF

I am sure it is named after Duke Nukem Forever, as it also took ages to get released and initially it didn't live up to the expectations.

[Luke_Wolf]

I am sure it is named after Duke Nukem Forever, as it also took ages to get released and initially it didn't live up to the expectations.

What you mean like them saying "We're developing this rather than just taking zypper because we want a drop in replacement for yum", and it turning out to not be a drop in replacement for yum, and so they stuck with naming it dnf rather than renaming it yum, and then when pressed on it squirm around about how they're using libzypp and so they're effectively using zypper?

[Anvil]

I'm not sure I want to use software called DNF

it'll be renamed to YUM eventually

why they Keep PackageSpit around is beyond me. when Gnome-Software handles most of it nowadays anyway

[finalzone]

it'll be renamed to YUM eventually

why they Keep PackageSpit around is beyond me. when Gnome-Software handles most of it nowadays anyway

Gnome Software uses PackageKit as backend which depends on libdnf currently under redesign.

[pal666]

why they Keep PackageSpit around is beyond me

what is stopping you from educating yourself?

[Anvil]

what is stopping you from educating yourself?

i do that all the time, thats why i come here