Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf!

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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 :)

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

Mark Lawrence

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Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-18 15:21 +1000
  Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-05-18 10:18 +0000
    Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-05-18 10:28 +0000
      Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina.rakotomandimby@rktmb.org> - 2015-05-18 15:08 +0300
        Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-05-18 12:08 +0000
          Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina.rakotomandimby@rktmb.org> - 2015-05-18 15:15 +0300
    Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-18 11:30 +0100
      Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-05-18 10:58 +0000
      Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2015-05-19 11:59 +1200
    Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-18 20:38 +1000
    Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-18 21:49 +1000
      Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-18 14:50 +0100

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