is fedora really bleeding edge?

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 3/4/2012 5:28 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 05.03.2012 02:01, schrieb Paul Allen Newell:
>> On 3/4/2012 1:46 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> Run: yum install python3\*
>>> and see what happens.
>> Aaron:
>>
>> I just went through all the man pages and docs on yum and couldn't see what this syntax meant. To get python3, I do
>> "yum install python3" ... what does the \* get me?
> the backslash escapes the * for the shell
> if not all filenames starting with python3 would be
> interpreted as parameter what you surely do not want
>
>
Reindl:

Thanks. From a shell point-of-view, this makes sense, but I am still not 
certain what it buys me over just "yum install python3".

Paul