On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 02:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I understood you think it is a bad idea but if yum already checks
first
to see if there is a perfect match and then does a more fuzzy search, I
don't see a problem with it. There are people who do yum -y remove foo
and then blame yum. I think your rm -rf example is similar.
There is a real need to solve the problem that OP talks about. It has
bitten me more than once including precisely the example cited: Miro. I
am not sure what would be the best solution though. Debian does it by
enforcing lower case on all their packages IIRC.
Yes and that is what we should do - enforce lower case on all packages.
Policy problems should be handled in policy, not by adding crack to
software.
-sv