[openstack-dev] [DevStack] Python dependencies: PyPI vs distro packages

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Aug 8 08:11:35 UTC 2013


On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 05:43:19PM +0000, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Interesting, I should look into conary.
> 
> I was hoping that DNF (the yum rewrite) would be a little better at this
> stage, but it still seems a ways off.

I don't know about what future plans the developers may have, but
currently DNF is just offering the same functionality as Yum, but
with its depsolver using a C library to make it orders of magnitude
faster. It isn't attempting to manage packages in any different
way to what Yum already does

Daniel
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