On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 04:01 -0500, Radek Holy wrote:
TBH, I don't know whether we should extend the forms of package
specifications to support your case. The current behaviour seems to be
safer to me. I mean, if we improve it, user wouldn't be able to query
just package names as easily as now.
Safer? I can't think how.
FWIW, in yum we did it the other way and added install-n, remove-n for
just operating on the names of packages. Seemed less confusing if you
want to force it, and did what people expected. YMMV.