Re: [atomic-devel] [PATCH] fedora-atomic-base: Drop /usr/bin/yum explicitly

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014, at 03:34 PM, James Antill wrote:

>  As I'd said on IRC, I understand the rationale ... I just worry about
> the random fallout from not shipping a usable yum, but shipping a usable
> rpm.
>  Can we rename it, or move it somewhere? (/usr/bin/yum-ro)?

With this revised patch it's no longer in the depchain.

>  Or just remove rpm too, and rely on rpm-ostree?

Not having /usr/bin/rpm would feel fairly radical to me;
while yum has value even read-only operating on repositories,
downstreams should be able to run e.g. "rpm -qi" and such,
right?

My feeling is there's not a clear cut here - we're in
a transition period, and there's going to be some duplication
and confusion regardless of how it's done.  The question
is how to minimize it =)