Dependencies a little excessive?

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Aug 10 02:36:18 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 14:05 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:47:57PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > If you have a patch that nicely deals with:
> > 
> > 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?
> 

so let's say we do that.

and then the person wants to install all packages named:

foo*.i?86

what should yum do in that case?

-sv





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