I have not had yum installed on my system for a long time (like five years). I explicitly removed it using dnf erase yum then, and have carried on since without any apparent hitch for at least five years.

HTH, YMMV.

Ranjan

Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 at 1:25 PM
From: "Cisco Tissera" <audiogamer2004@gmail.com>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

Hello there,

Yes, the switch has happened indeed, since Fedora... 21?

The point I'm trying to make is, why keep yum, since the switch to dnf has already happened?

Even yum's plugins and extra utilities are still a thing.

Best regards.

Francisco.

On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:10 AM Markus Schönhaber <fedora-users@list-post.mks-mail.de> wrote:

18.06.21, 12:43 +0200, Cisco Tissera:

> For quite random reasons, I was wondering what would happen if I completely
> removed yum, and only used dnf.
> Is it possible to do that? or would it totally break the system?
> Another question: why keep two package managers, and not switch to dnf and
> just keep dnf?

On a fresh install of F34 Server I see this:

# LANG=C dnf list installed \*yum\*
Installed Packages
yum.noarch 4.7.0-1.fc34 @updates

# rpm -ql yum
/usr/bin/yum
/usr/share/man/man8/yum.8.gz

# ls -l /usr/bin/yum
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 13. Mai 16:35 /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3*

So, there's pretty little "yummy" stuff there. And what is there is not
much more than a pointer to dnf.
It seems, the switch to dnf you asked about has basically already happened.

--
Regards
mks
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