Enhanced Performance: DNF5 promises faster repository metadata processing and improved package query operations, aiming to save users precious seconds during package management tasks.
Reduced System Footprint: By eliminating Python dependencies and merging the functionalities of DNF and MicroDNF, DNF5 offers a significantly smaller installation size, reducing metadata redundancy.
Unified Experience: Fedora aims to provide a consistent package management experience across all platforms, with DNF5 serving as the sole package manager for servers, workstations, and containers.
I’ve been using dnf5 for a few weeks now. I never want to go back. If you use fedora, seriously consider checking it out. The only thing I’m missing is the provides subcommand.
Is it just because it’s faster? Feels like I can wait a couple of months for that?
Ahh got to wait for your current system update to finish I see. /s
Did you run into any issue? Is it stable enough? I’ve never got the guts to install it on my main desktop.
I haven’t yet! Today I did a kernel update with it, I was kind of hoping something would go wrong so I would have a bug to report. But nope. Everything worked flawlessly. I’m not really sure how to break it but I’m going to try (in a vm lol)
I hate dnf downloading 100 mb of meta data before I can install a package.
I had worked with Pacman and it was just so good with repos.
Does it feel better?
It’s been a while since i used fedora but last i remember dnf was awe fully slow compared to pacman. In fact so slow that i was wondering if there was some kind of bug somewhere. Glad this is being addressed. Fedora is imho the best distribution to get someone to use Linux for the first time. It works so well.
