IIRC, it was created as a compromise between people who wanted Fedora to move entirely to ZYpp and people who wanted to maintain compatibility with yum's APIs.
What is sad though, is that it does not output CUDF, which would allow using other solvers.
IIRC, it was created as a compromise between people who wanted Fedora to move entirely to ZYpp and people who wanted to maintain compatibility with yum's APIs.