Dependencies a little excessive?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:04 -0400, seth vidal wrote:

> okay - then here are a couple of more situations I want to make sure are
> understood:
> 
> yum remove foo*
> 
> it should remove all packages starting with foo of EVERY arch or just of
> the primary arch in the biarch set?
> 
> yum update foo*
> 
> ditto of above? What should it default to act on

This is interesting.  In my mind I've been thinking of globs as broken
because they pull in everything.  Then I start using them when I remove
something and it works as I expect!  Woohoo!  Next time I use it to
install something and it's still "broken"....

Now that we've had this discussion I realize this isn't broken but a
design decision.  But even though I now realize it is consistent, I
still think it is unexpected.

Here's why:
yum install vim*
installs vim-common.x86_64 vim-enhanced.x86_64 vim-minimal.x86_64

yum install xfsprogs*
installs xfsprogs.x86_64 xfsprogs.i386 xfsprogs-devel.x86_64
xfsprogs-devel.i386

Why should xfsprogs install i386 packages when vim doesn't?

-Toshio
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