Why does DNF have so many ways to do the same thing?
Why does DNF have so many ways to do the same thing?

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Why does DNF have so many ways to do the same thing?

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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/FypeWaqer on 2025-05-31 17:45:09+00:00.
Okay, so you have dnf list
but you also dnf repoquery
. The latter is more powerful but why does dnf list
even exists then. Then you have dnf repo list
and dnf repolist
which must be two different subcommands but they do the same thing, I believe. Why?
Is it the usual backwards compatibility thing or does DNF try to do appeal to everyone that way? I don't get it.