What happened to yum shell ?

[dletai]

Is there an alternative method to invoke yum shell like functionality in dnf5? I was quite surprised to find the shell command missing from the dnf5 commands. Is there some discussion I could be referred to, to see why it was dropped/replaced, and what is suggested as an alternative?

[ppisar]

There is #1223. YUM shell was actually a Python shell getting access to YUM internals. As DNF5 does not use Python, there was no reasonable way of reimplementing it. While DNF5 team recognizes the need for more a expressive way of specifying the transactions, providing an access to private internals was rejected as unsupportable and unsafe. Currently there is no substitution besides using C++ (or any of the supported language bindings, like Python) API for libdnf5 to write your own application performing the desired operations.