On Feb 6, 2015 7:57 AM, "Ryan Lerch" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 02/05/2015 10:54 PM, Glen Rundblom wrote: >> >> Hello Marketing Group. >> I have an article about DNF in the pending state. Could someone take a few minutes and review it to see if it's something that would be good for the magazine. I also made a little PNG graphic with Gimp script-fu if that would be beneficial. >> >> Thank you, >> -Glen >> > I just checked out your article, and it looks like a great concept for an article. > > It would be good to provide a lot more detail a couple of points that would be nice to cover and fleshed out would be: > > * a brief explanation of what YUM/DNF actually are and do on a conceptual level -- our audience range on the Magazine is kinda broad, so it would be nice to have a sentence or two on this for people that might not know exactly what a package manager does. > > * "DNF will have a lot more features, and new ways to operate." -- it would be nice to list some of the changes and new features out in here -- as well as an explanation as to why DNF is better > > * comparing the sample commands might also be good too: something like: > "Searching for packages with DNF is basically the same as with yum. To Search for the repositories for a package with DNF, use the command: sudo dnf search nano, and dnf will return ..." > > * DNF is not the default in f21, so it would also be good to explain how people can use it on f21 -- what package needs to be installed etc. I think there is also a package that makes it so DNF is run when you type yum, so this might be worth mentioning as well > > * Not sure when DNF is going to be the default, but it might be good to try to find out if / when this is on the plans in Fedora for, and mentioning that too. > > cheers, > ryanlerch > > -- >
Since we're making bullet points on dnf for a broad audience, I also suggest advising everyone to install dnf-plugins and explaining a bit about the --best argument. These two things make a huge difference to the dnf experience. --Pete
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