Yes, I searched here about DNF and DNFDragora, and they answered all my basic question such as coexisting with urpmi and the preinstalled MCC. However I don't have a RPM distro background so don't use or should say I am not used to using YUM or other DNF based RPM based package managers. I have Mageia 7.1 installed on another SSD here. This is a new install because I need the room for a virtualization using Virtualbox of an OS that I refuse to install directly ever to my computers, but have to use a couple of programs and it seems like a better solution than dual booting.
So I have this NICE SHINY NEW Mageia 8 beta 1 install. It seems quite stable. I ran the KDE live for something like 12 hours with no issues. IS this new in the installer? That it installs changes you make in the LIve session? I didn't know it did that!! I was so sad because for the long overnight run I had installed applications and themes then I took it off just to test something that I usually use but really found and felt this was better. If I had known it would install all my settings... Oh well, live in learn.
Well as I stated, this is Mageia 8. Confusing me much because actually everything says Cauldron? So when does it change to Mageia 8 officially? Do I have to change repos or enable certain repos rather when it is officially released?
That brings me to the question of DNF, I am more familiar with the repo setup in the urpmi GUI in the Mageia control center but I wanted to try the DNF as it is included here & has a Qt front end in DNFDragora. I took a look at the repos list and left it alone. The naming conventions seem a little different than MCC. Because I usually only use the Stable but really wanted to try 8 with the changes and new features I am quite unfamiliar with the whole Cauldron setup.
Any basic advice if I am going to be using DNFDragora and DNF to manage things? Mostly just the question about the repo settings. I didn't search Cauldron use in the forum, should I? Though I just want to use 8 and when it reaches final release be on Mageia 8.