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yum is now based on dnf https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8-beta/html-single/8.0_beta_release_notes/#software_management h

• ciupicri 8y ago
  Yeah, but why not switch to dnf entirely since this is a major release? Fedora dropped yum some time ago.
  • gnufied 8y ago
    I would imagine because it will break lot of scripts that use yum tooling. Just changing binary name could be painful.
    • swalsh 8y ago
      Even on Fedora yum is still available
      • Alupis 8y ago
        No, not really. You can install yum, but by default, any yum commands are translated to their dnf counterpart. (Many don't need translation other than `alias yum dnf` sort of thing)
      • chr15p 8y ago
        On my fedora 29 box: [root@laptop ~]# which yum /usr/bin/yum [root@laptop ~]# ls -l /usr/bin/yum lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 Oct 15 12:47 /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3 Pretty sure "yum" in rhel8 will actually be dnf as well, but keeping the name for backwards compatability
  • rwmj 8y ago
    You can type either ‘yum’ or ‘dnf’, but they decided to keep ‘yum’ to avoid a lot of scripts/documentation from breaking. ‘yum’ is a compatibility layer over dnf that keeps the old command line syntax but uses the fast depsolver, weak dependencies and other new features from dnf.
  • spicyusername 8y ago
    It is dnf, they just didn't want to change the name, so they call it yum. Enterprises are babies when it comes to change and would have been mad if they needed to update their scripts.