On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:10:02 +0530 Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >> seth vidal wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:03 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > >>>> Hi. > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:55:34 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote > >>>> > >>>>> 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. > >>>> How about "try case sensitive first, and insensitive if the first does > >>>> not turn up anything"? > >>> yes, b/c we love it so much when computer programs try to think for us. > >> They already do in a lot of occasions anyway. Is there a real reason not > >> to do this? I always hated finding out that some package have > >> capitalizations for no obvious reasons. MySQL or mysql or Mysql... Being > >> able to just type yum install mysql without having to worry about the > >> specifics would be nice. > > > > yes, b/c it is a really bad idea. > > > > much like having: rm -rf foo actually be case insensitive. > > I understood you think it is a bad idea but if yum already checks first > to see if there is a perfect match and then does a more fuzzy search, I > don't see a problem with it. There are people who do yum -y remove foo > and then blame yum. I think your rm -rf example is similar. Here's the problem with it: Seth thinks it's a bad idea. He's the upstream for yum. josh p.s. I think it's a bad idea too for what it's worth. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
