Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 27 08:37:41 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 09:32 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> On Di November 27 2007, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> > Till Maas wrote:
> 
> > > How about making it case unsensitive only when assume-yes (or -y) is not
> > > set? This way the use is always asked whether he really wants this? Or
> > > make yum suggest other packages that are available but differ in case,
> > > e.g. printing a message like "foo is not available, but there is a
> > > package Foo".
> 
> > And people complain that yum is slow now... I can't see this speeding
> > things up.
> 
> This is faster than having to restart yum two more times, once to search for 
> the real case and once to install it.
> 

then don't start it twice:
yum shell
> search blah
> install BlaH
> run

that's it.

-sv







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