Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora
On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 07:25:14AM -0400, Cisco Tissera wrote:
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.
The 'yum' package and executable on Fedora is just a placeholder.
/usr/bin/yum is just a symlink to dnf-3. There is no legacy yum code
installed. The package and symlink just exists for people who are
used to typing 'yum', or they use 3rd-party software that runs 'yum'
instead of 'dnf'.
You can remove the yum package, it won't change the way packages are
managed on Fedora. It's just a helper package.
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