Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!bcyclone04.am1.xlned.com!bcyclone04.am1.xlned.com!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1a.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.002 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.04; 'subject:Python': 0.06; 'finished,': 0.07; 'remaining': 0.07; 'deprecated': 0.09; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'language.': 0.14; 'declared': 0.16; 'meanwhile': 0.16; 'merely': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'subject:dead': 0.16; 'survive': 0.16; ':-)': 0.16; 'language': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; '>>>': 0.22; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.23; 'mon,': 0.24; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.27; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.27; "d'aprano": 0.31; 'fedora': 0.31; 'steven': 0.31; 'url:05': 0.31; 'run': 0.32; 'bugs': 0.33; 'except': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'version': 0.36; "didn't": 0.36; 'thanks': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.38; 'pm,': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'received:org': 0.40; 'name': 0.63; 'our': 0.64; 'finish': 0.65; 'url:11': 0.68; 'programs,': 0.74; '2015': 0.84; 'received:2': 0.84; 'subject:long': 0.84; 'art,': 0.91; 'officially': 0.91 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Python 3: yum is dead, long live dnf! Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 14:50:37 +0100 References: <555976c1$0$2804$c3e8da3$76491128@news.astraweb.com> <5559d1b5$0$12990$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-2-98-199-132.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 In-Reply-To: <5559d1b5$0$12990$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1431957305 news.xs4all.nl 2901 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:51938 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl X-Received-Bytes: 4041 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4233466876 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:90803 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