[geekbird]

IMO dnf is ridiculous newfangled garbage too. Why do people keep reinventing the wheel when it comers to package managers? Apt for .deb and yum for .rpm work fine, manage dependencies, and Just. Plain. Work. without f'ing up the system with autoupdates and bloatware. Seriously, an open source project is not for junior programmers to push their resume driven development on the rest of the community.

[pxc]

dnf is way better than either apt or yum. (Somewhere in my HN comment history I've written at some length about this.)

Major points:

  - dnf has a more complete dependency resolver than apt uses by default
  - the notion of vendor change is extremely useful when managing multiple repositories on a system
  - modern subcommand interfaces are great, and dnf's is stable and mature whereas apt's is still experimental
  - dnf handles repo management itself. apt doesn't