Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf!

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Mon May 18 09:50:37 EDT 2015


On 18/05/2015 12:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> 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.
>

I didn't realise that there is an emoticon depicting Stonehenge, thanks 
for that :)

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence




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