Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf!

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Mon May 18 07:49:08 EDT 2015


On Mon, 18 May 2015 08:18 pm, alister wrote:

> On Mon, 18 May 2015 15:21:05 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 
>> As part of Red Hat's move to Python 3, yum is officially deprecated and
>> replaced by dnf:
>> 
>> http://dnf.baseurl.org/2015/05/11/yum-is-dead-long-live-dnf/
>> 
>> Quote:
>> 
>>     Yum would not survive the “Python 3 as default” Fedora initiative
>>     meanwhile DNF is able to run on Python 2 and Python 3.
> 
> 
> Poor choice of name DNF= Did Not Finish

:-)

Computer programs, like art, are never finished, merely abandoned.

Except for TeX, of course, which upon Donald Knuth's death will be released
as version π and all remaining bugs declared to be features.




-- 
Steven




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