[ale] questions

[Damon L. Chesser]

hmmm.  quite some time ago, I read the FAQ for DNF and it said it stood 
for nothing, random letters.  How dare they change the answers to a 
FAQ!  Hurumph!




On 10/19/2016 12:51 AM, James Sumners wrote:
> "DNF stands for Dandified yum. Since DNF is a tech preview in Fedora 
> 18 the Python module names can not be 'yum.*' as that would clash with 
> yum itself."
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DNF#Naming
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:40 PM, Sean <kilpatms at comcast.net 
> <mailto:kilpatms at comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     I just finished installing Libre Office and am left with two
>     questions:
>
>     1.  Why did Fedora/Red Hat decide to change yum to dnf?  I am used
>     to seeing
>     "dnf" in the agate results of a car race, where it means "Did Not
>     Finish."
>
>     2.  After installing or updating a package I always run yum (now
>     dnf) clean
>     all.  On this new Fedora 24 install the routine always returns "52
>     files
>     removed."  It seems really odd to me that regardless of how much
>     or how little
>     has been downloaded and installed, <clean all> always removes the
>     same number
>     of files. Any clues on what might actually be going on here?
>
>     Sean
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