> On 18 Jun 2021, at 12:26, Cisco Tissera <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello there,
> 
> Yes, the switch has happened indeed, since Fedora... 21?
> The point I'm trying to make is, why keep yum, since the  switch to dnf has 
> already happened?

My guess is that it to do with a lot of code expecting yum and not dnf.
At work we use different versions of Centos and they all support yum, not all 
support dnf.

> Even yum's plugins and extra utilities are still a thing.

And the config is in /etc/yum.repos.d 

Barry

> Best regards.
> Francisco.
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 7:10 AM Markus Schönhaber 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 18.06.21, 12:43 +0200, Cisco Tissera:
>> 
>> > For quite random reasons, I was wondering what would happen if I completely
>> > removed yum, and only used dnf.
>> > Is it possible to do that? or would it totally break the system?
>> > Another question: why keep two package managers, and not switch to dnf and
>> > just keep dnf?
>> 
>> On a fresh install of F34 Server I see this:
>> 
>> # LANG=C dnf list installed \*yum\*
>> Installed Packages
>> yum.noarch                      4.7.0-1.fc34                   @updates
>> 
>> # rpm -ql yum
>> /usr/bin/yum
>> /usr/share/man/man8/yum.8.gz
>> 
>> # ls -l /usr/bin/yum
>> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 5 13. Mai 16:35 /usr/bin/yum -> dnf-3*
>> 
>> So, there's pretty little "yummy" stuff there. And what is there is not
>> much more than a pointer to dnf.
>> It seems, the switch to dnf you asked about has basically already happened.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards
>>   mks
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