Docs: Avoid telling developers on fedora to update their system #230
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Description
Currently the development instructions tell fedora users to run
sudo dnf update
before installing the required development packages. Considering thesudo apt-get update
instruction in the ubuntu guide I'm assuming the intent with that instruction was to make sure people's package managers have an up to date list of available packages butdnf update
doesn't do that, it just updates all packages on the system.dnf
usually takes care of refreshing its cache of package metadata on its own so the fedora instructions should be fine with justsudo dnf install ...
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