[yocto] Fwd: [DNF YOCTO clarifications] smart was replaced with dnf in Yocto 2.3
Burton, Ross
ross.burton at intel.com
Tue Aug 29 09:31:16 PDT 2017
On 24 August 2017 at 15:34, Zoran Stojsavljevic <
zoran.stojsavljevic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you agree to continue keeping DNF package (in
> .../meta/recipe_devtools/) for handling of .rpm type of packages in the
> future releases of YOCTO (it is, after all, much better and more mature
> tool that smartpm)?
>
For all future releases, forever? Committing to that would be foolish.
We have no plans to move from DNF to something else. Luckily Yocto is open
source so if in a few years time a stable and superior alternative to DNF
appears and we move to it, you can continue to maintain the DNF recipes
yourself.
Ross
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