<story><title>Yum is dead, long live DNF</title><url>http://dnf.baseurl.org/2015/05/11/yum-is-dead-long-live-dnf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SwellJoe</author><text>I may be a sentimental old fool, but I feel a vague sense of sadness at the removal of yum. Seth Vidal, the original author of yum (or, the fellow who forked it from Yellow Dog Updater, and made it yum), was one of the sweetest, brightest, and most helpful developers I&amp;#x27;ve interacted with in my long history with Open Source. He was killed a few years back when he was hit by a car while cycling, and yum has never quite been the same without him, but I occasionally think of him when using yum.&lt;p&gt;I wish they&amp;#x27;d keep the yum name, since dnf is still based on yum, even if a lot of the innards have been replaced. Also, &amp;quot;dnf&amp;quot; is not at all awesome to say out loud, while &amp;quot;yum&amp;quot; is among the most awesome commands to say out loud.</text></comment>
<story><title>Yum is dead, long live DNF</title><url>http://dnf.baseurl.org/2015/05/11/yum-is-dead-long-live-dnf/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>istvan__</author><text>Out of curiosity, why not fix something if broken? Why is there is always a half baked alternative that has a different set of problems. Instead of replacing what is perceived broken you can just fix it also keeping the good parts. I have several systems deeply vested in in the yum&amp;#x2F;rpm ecosystem and I see very little chance that a new package manager is going to offer that much new features that I need while keeping the features I already like from yum.&lt;p&gt;From the article:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;undocumented API,  broken dependency solving algorithm and inability to refactor internal functions. The last mentioned issue is connected with the lack of documentation. &amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Well some of them I don&amp;#x27;t care about as a user of yum some of them I can verify not true (documentation) and some of them I care about and it works for my use-cases (dependency solving algorithm).</text></comment>