On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:07:44AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > it's sorta a bug. > > essentially it's hard to tell if the user meant: > > search for the exact string '++' or use the glob '++' and search by > that. 'yum' seems to be using "wildcards", a.k.a. "shell patterns", where '+' is not significant. OTOH yum documentation insists on talking about "regexps" where the picture would be different. In practice it looks that there are some inconsistencies there and quoting is at least prudent and it does solve gotchas. Michal