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-

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