A little problem with dnf

[Radek Holy]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Zelený" <jzeleny at redhat.com>
> To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 8:33:21 AM
> Subject: Re: A little problem with dnf
> 
> On 12. 1. 2015 at 07:55:26, Adrian Soliard wrote:
> > 2015-01-12 5:35 GMT-03:00 Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain at gmail.com>:
> > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
> > >> On 11. 1. 2015 at 20:40:56, Adrian Soliard wrote:
> > >>> Hi everyone!
> > >>> 
> > >>>    I'm struggling a bit with dnf. It may have advantages, but as an
> > >>> 
> > >>> end-user, I'm fighting with the list of packages when I press TAB.
> > >>> It's complicated, if I forget to install a specific package, dnf
> > >>> wouldn't show it to me, yum do it [1].
> > >>> 
> > >>> I know that dnf is newer, and surely will improve, I'm just writing to
> > >>> let seated such problem.
> > >>> 
> > >>> [1] http://asoliard.fedorapeople.org/dnf.png
> > >> 
> > >> What happens when you press "y"? Does it show you the completions then?
> > >> I
> > >> have just tried it and the list seems to be correct to me - it's just
> > >> quite long because there are many packages starting with "eclipse"
> > 
> > If I press "y" it show me a list of coincidence, but It don't matter
> > if is installed or not.
> > 
> > >> In any case if you think there is something wrong with dnf, we encourage
> > >> you to file a bug but this doesn't seem to be the case.
> > 
> > I know, that's not a problem, I'm not going to open a bug for this.;
> > But I think is good to know, as I said before, dnf is newer than yum,
> > it will improve
> > 
> > > This will happens, because installed packages is available packages I
> > > think and we relying completion on available packages.
> > 
> > Try it: Install a package (a simple package, like "homebank"), and
> > then write "dnf install homeba" and TAB.
> > dnf will autocomplete "homebank", and you already has installed it.
> 
> Ah I didn't get what the problem was. Now I can see the problem and reproduce
> it. Not a big deal but should be fixed somewhere down the road. I would still
> like to ask you to file a bug so this doesn't get lost in the swamp of other
> bugs and enhancements we work on.

BTW, in case of YUM, it would make sense to suggest even installed packages because "yum install homebank" means "install the latest homebank or upgrade to the latest version of homebank".
-- 
Radek Holý
Associate Software Engineer
Software Management Team
Red Hat Czech