Dependencies a little excessive?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Aug 9 18:12:05 UTC 2006


Matthew Miller (mattdm at mattdm.org) said: 
> 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?

And what if they thought .* was a regexp and not globbing? :)

Bill




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