microdnf
Lightweight implementation of dnf in C (by rpm-software-management)
libdnf
Package management library. (by rpm-software-management)
| microdnf | libdnf | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 216 | 183 | |
| 0.5% | 0.0% | |
| 2.9 | 7.6 | |
| 9 days ago | 9 days ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
microdnf
Posts with mentions or reviews of microdnf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-08.
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Why does the UBI image ubi9/openjdk-17-runtime include python3?
U right https://github.com/rpm-software-management/microdnf
- What do you think of DNF?
libdnf
Posts with mentions or reviews of libdnf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-29.
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What do you think of DNF?
dnf uses python only for command line functionality. Its core part, libdnf, is written in C++. However yes, dnf in my experience is still significantly slower than apt and pacman.
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Can we stop calling user friendly distros "beginner distros"
it doesn't do that. Everything is handled by libdnf - https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/tree/dnf-4-master/libdnf
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Interesting: DNF has recently gained "Vendor Pinning" almost like on Zypper/openSUSE
libdnf: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/907
What are some alternatives?
When comparing microdnf and libdnf you can also consider the following projects:
dnf - Package manager based on libdnf and libsolv. Replaces YUM.
micro-yuminst - NOTE: moved to microdnf; previously: minimal implementation of yum -y install in C using libhif
PS4-4PT - PS4 Advanced Packaging Tool
cpk - Light and fast package manager on C/C++ for C/C++/Python/Rust/Js packages
ci-dnf-stack - CI tests for the dnf stack
poac - A package manager and build system for C++
recipes - Miscellaneous notes on how to achieve things.
pacc - An easy-to-use and powerful C++ 📦 package manager with integrated 🛠build tools.