[Bug 507294] [RFE] Allow wildcards/regexps in yum install/upgrade/comps...

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--- Comment #4 from James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>  2009-06-22 13:53:46 EDT ---
> but I'm quite sure it should be exposed at the yum level at least. Having 
> apps auto-install fonts when they find the need in a document is great,
> but sometimes users want to install fonts before they've started typing
> their document

 Then open-office writer can hook in and ask to install some fonts. Or people
can just look for a font name they recognise in PK or yum. I find it really
hard to believe people are going to think "Oh, I need to write a document. Oh I
don't have any fonts. Oh let's just install all English fonts with 'yum install
fonts(*;lang=en;*)'. ".

> Actually, I'm quite sure people will do. The internet is littered with yum
> recipes to install particular fonts (either "here is how to install dejavu
> lgc", or "here is how to install every available thai font").

 You are implying that people need weird specific subsets, in the above two
cases I'd suggest:

 yum install dejavu\*
 yum install \*-fonts

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