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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf!
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 11:30:57 +0100
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On 18/05/2015 11:18, 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
>

Does Not Fail?

As an aside, from the signature of your message, I thought "In war, 
truth is the first casualty." was first said by Winston Churchill, not U 
Thant?

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence