So I have another idea. I still believe that just making installing in yum case insensitive would be a good idea, but we can make something like "yum suggestions". Example: # yum install perl-TExt-CharWidth No package perl-TExt-CharWidth available. (didn't you mean perl-Text-CharWidth?) Yum wouldn't install a package itself, but just suggest to an user that "sorry man, you made a mistake". That should make everybody happy and shouldn't be difficult to implement too. And we could add a new option to yum.conf file: "sensitiveness=1". Can be changed to "=1" if anybody like. 2007/11/26, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:50:46 +0100 > "Michał Bentkowski" <mr.ecik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi! > > Recently, a funny thing happened on Polish Fedora forum. Some users > > were talking about Miro but rest of them weren't able even to install > > that... After some time it turned out that they tried to type "yum > > install miro" instead of "yum install Miro". > > So my question is the same as in the topic: should "yum install" be > > case sensitive? > > I haven't checked but I'm quite sure (correct me if I'm wrong) that > > there are no packages in repo whose names differ in letter size. > > What's more: "yum list" command is case insensitive and there's > > nothing wrong with it, is there? I know that you can say that these > > users I wrote about in the beginning should have used "yum list" first > > and then they would have found out why things went wrong but it makes > > a need to type more and more commands. > > "yum install" gives a summary what packages are going to be installed > > so if a user wanted to run "Foo", but not "foo" she/he could break the > > installation. > > Besides, pressing SHIFT key could be painful ;-) > > So my proposal is to make "yum install" (and probably "yum update" as > > well) case insensitive. > > Just think about it :) > > Search is case insensitive, list is a search. However packages are > case sensitive. While we don't /currently/ have a Miro and a miro, the > rpm database would allow for it, thus install/removal actions need to > be case sensitive. We could try for some brutal packaging policy that > demands all package names be in lower case, but I doubt that would fly > very far. > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours? > > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > > -- Michał Bentkowski mr.ecik@xxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
