On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:33 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:04 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > okay - then here are a couple of more situations I want to make sure are > > understood: > > > > yum remove foo* > > > > it should remove all packages starting with foo of EVERY arch or just of > > the primary arch in the biarch set? > > > > yum update foo* > > > > ditto of above? What should it default to act on > > This is interesting. In my mind I've been thinking of globs as broken > because they pull in everything. Then I start using them when I remove > something and it works as I expect! Woohoo! Next time I use it to > install something and it's still "broken".... > > Now that we've had this discussion I realize this isn't broken but a > design decision. But even though I now realize it is consistent, I > still think it is unexpected. > > Here's why: > yum install vim* > installs vim-common.x86_64 vim-enhanced.x86_64 vim-minimal.x86_64 > > yum install xfsprogs* > installs xfsprogs.x86_64 xfsprogs.i386 xfsprogs-devel.x86_64 > xfsprogs-devel.i386 > > Why should xfsprogs install i386 packages when vim doesn't? > b/c, afaik, there is no i386 package for vim in the x86_64 tree. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
