On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 13:21 -0500, James Bowes wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > so if I say > > > > yum search foo > > > > should that match dogfood? > > > > I'd be inclined to say yes, it should, but if I say: yum search " foo " > > it wouldn't. > > yeah, because in the first case, "foo" becomes "*foo*", and in the second, > " foo " becomes "* foo *". > > Though if you said "foo*", dogfood would not match, but food would. I > guess the problem is if you only want to match foo, there's no way to do > that. Unless we add like "search --exact" or something, but that would > have very little usefulness.
right. And to be clear, I think what you're proposing is a great idea - standardization so we can predict what _should_ happen. I was just trying to figure out where something like the above would fit. Thanks for working on this. -sv _______________________________________________ Yum-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum-devel
