Dependencies a little excessive?

Matthias Saou thias at spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net
Wed Aug 9 18:53:07 UTC 2006


Matthew Miller wrote :

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:12:05PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > > yum install libgnome\*
> > > > and guesses if the user meant: install libgnome*.x86_64 or
> > > >                                install libgnome.*(all archs)
> > > > send it to me, I'm amenable to that sort of thing.
> > > Can we just define and document it as being the former?
> > And what if they thought .* was a regexp and not globbing? :)
> 
> No problem! This issue is already documented!

Yup.

I was just saying that I didn't like that "feature", not that I knew
better nor knew how to properly fix it.

I better not say that I don't like multilib, then, right? :-)

Matthias

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