Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution
by Operyl on Sunday June 16, 2019 @11:11AM
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I wasn't saying there was a disadvantage, I'm just giving a potential look into why it took longer than, say, Arch. Yum is a huge Python project, and it took a while to comb through it all.
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Re:OpenMandriva, the first Clang-built Linux distribution
by Conan_Kudo on Sunday June 16, 2019 @12:50PM
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It wasn't YUM that held back OpenMandriva's switch (OpenMandriva never used YUM), but some of the build infrastructure tools that wound up being replaced as part of the migration from urpmi to DNF.
Those legacy tools never were updated for Python 3 because they had no maintainers or developers. When the distribution switched to DNF, they were able to adopt actively maintained software that replaced those that were ported to Python 3.