Yes, agreed. I completely agree with you.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 7:51 AM Nadav Har'El <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:50 PM Jose Mathew Manimala <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Nadav,
>>
>>
>>
>> Good day to you.
>>
>> The fundamental difference is that RHEL and Centos are Long Term Support
>> versions and usually run on a LTS build of yum.
>>
>> On recent builds of Fedora based distributions, dnf the new package
>> manager is the norm.
>>
>>
>>
>> yum swap A B is the equivalent in the new world dnf install –allowearsing
>> package.
>>
>>
>>
>> The same switch is also exposed through yum on newer releases(yum passes
>> on calls to dnf).
>>
>> This is why fundamentally, RHEL and Centos package management will lag
>> behind Fedora.
>>
>>
>>
>> My reasoning for overriding the install variable was
>>
>>    1. to provide a cleaner parameter list availability for RHEL and
>>    Centos, In case there are many incompatible flags in the future.
>>    2. We could also, as you have suggested, refactor the individual
>>    versions, but I don’t have context to which versions of Fedora,
>>
>> So, as I noted, this flag was only needed for the
> "compact-openssl10-devel" package, so it's only needed for the Fedora
> versions which add this package.
> In the future, it would be great if we could drop both this package, and
> the flag.  The reason for this package is explained in commit
> af16f934ab795e607e3041dc707dbcd7ea4a7229.
>
>
>

-- 
Cheers,
Jose

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