Yum/dnf Search Functionality

Stephen Morris samorris at netspace.net.au
Wed Jun 25 21:39:08 UTC 2014


On 06/24/2014 06:15 PM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 24 June 2014, Stephen Morris sent:
>> Does this mean that yum and dnf only search non-installed package
>> descriptions/names?
> Yum's search function was limited to a smaller set of data unless you
> did "yum search all," then it looked wider afield.  It even suggested
> you try it, if you got low/no results (it's been a while since I've
> noticed this).
>
Thanks Tim, neither yum nor dnf, both of which give the same results, 
didn't suggest to try a further search, but I would have thought that as 
a minimum they would have searched installed packages first. It is 
completely illogical to me for a product to do a search for specified 
functionality and not tell you that functionality is provided by 
something you already have installed.

regards,
Steve


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