----- Original Message ----- > From: "Radek Holy" <rh...@redhat.com> > To: "James Antill" <ja...@fedoraproject.org> > Cc: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 7:53:50 PM > Subject: Re: another dnf kernel issue? > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "James Antill" <ja...@fedoraproject.org> > > To: "Radek Holy" <rh...@redhat.com> > > Cc: ndbeck...@gmail.com, "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> > > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:28:44 PM > > Subject: Re: another dnf kernel issue? > > > > 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. > > With the current syntax, you can limit the globs to package names and still > you can append version or architecture specifications (globs or not). So > there is lower probability that you select packages that you didn't want to > select (e.g. packages containing numbers in their name). That's why I > consider it safer. > > So with our syntax you can more easily express yourself and so far I don't > know about anything that can be expressed via YUM's globs but not via DNF's. > And also we don't need yet another command. > > Anyway, I'm not trying to defend the current DNF syntax. This is just my > opinion. And TBH I didn't think about it too much. I don't think this > discussion is very much needed.
Feel free to correct me and explain me why this issue is important. It's definitely possible that I've missed something. -- Radek Holý Associate Software Engineer Software Management Team Red Hat Czech -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
