Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

2021-06-18 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 at 10:54, Cisco Tissera wrote: > Hello there, > > I see, thanks for the explanation, I really appreciate it. > About yum being a placeholder, it totally makes sense. > I guess I'll remove yum then, since I've started with dnf, and because i > am going to be using dnf. > This

Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

2021-06-18 Thread Cisco Tissera
Hello there, I see, thanks for the explanation, I really appreciate it. About yum being a placeholder, it totally makes sense. I guess I'll remove yum then, since I've started with dnf, and because i am going to be using dnf. Thanks again. Best regards. francisco. On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 9:25 AM

Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

2021-06-18 Thread Jonathan Billings
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.

Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

2021-06-18 Thread Barry
t; On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:10 AM Markus Schönhaber >> 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

Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

2021-06-18 Thread Ranjan Maitra
ssera" To: "Community support for Fedora users" 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

Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

2021-06-18 Thread Cisco Tissera
ally 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

Re: A question about the two package managers in fedora

2021-06-18 Thread Markus Schönhaber
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 switc

A question about the two package managers in fedora

2021-06-18 Thread Cisco Tissera
Hello everyone, 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? Sorry if my

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, December 16, 2010 11:11:03 am Temlakos wrote: > This isn't totally academic. I also administer a Web server, and I find > that a command-line interface is the only way that I can do any kind of > installation or upgrade. (I have to connect using secure-shell.) Might > as well learn

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread stan
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:11:03 -0500 Temlakos wrote: > On 12/16/2010 10:29 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:01:45 -0500 > > Temlakos wrote: > > > > > >> Does yumex still preserve this group-searching > >> capability? > >> > > I've given up on all the GUIs. I just use thin

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Temlakos
On 12/16/2010 10:29 AM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:01:45 -0500 > Temlakos wrote: > > >> Does yumex still preserve this group-searching >> capability? >> > I've given up on all the GUIs. I just use things like > "yum search", etc. > > All the GUIs seem to have decided (on

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Tom Horsley
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:01:45 -0500 Temlakos wrote: > Does yumex still preserve this group-searching > capability? I've given up on all the GUIs. I just use things like "yum search", etc. All the GUIs seem to have decided (on the basis of apparent total urban legend) to split into the GUI half a

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Rex Dieter
Temlakos wrote: > 2.KPackagekit does not allow very good searching within groups of > packages anymore--not in F14, it doesn't. That feature was inadvertantly not enabled properly, and an updated kpk is coming soon that should fix it. -- Rex -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraprojec

Re: Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread John Pilkington
"smart" in its repos, if we already have yum, > yumex, and package managers specific to KDE and Gnome. At least those > managers get the job done. It works for me, in f13, and provides easily accessible information on package contents, location, dependencies, history. 'Can&#x

Package managers

2010-12-16 Thread Temlakos
Everyone: Some package-management questions: 1.The package called "smart" doesn't seem to work anymore. It seems to me that it can't keep up with its channel files. I wonder why F14 even has a version of "smart" in its repos, if we already have yum, yumex, an