On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 06:04:00AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> I have mixed feelings for the typo correction/suggestions for arguments
> providing package names: I am glad they are case-insensitive because
> case conventions in package names are all over the place. On the other
> hand I am concerned about possible mistakes (I want to 'install foo' but
> mistype it as 'boo' and end up installing 'bugaboo').
Indeed, autocorrection should never be done without confirmation (and in
non-interactive mode ("dnf -y"), it should probably just fail). It's just
too likely to accidentally give the wrong answer.
There should definitely be the equivalent of 'dnf --do-exactly-what-i-say'
so that we can use it from scripts and programs.
Also (as yum is not careful about this):
- Always send errors to stderr and ordinary output to stdout
- Return a non-zero exit code on failure
- Make sure ^C works
Rich.
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