Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wanted to do urpmi gcc made a typo and did urpmi dcc. To my surprise,
> urpmi silently installed
>
> {pts/1}% sudo urpmi dcc
> ��������� /mnt/hd/cooker/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/irssi-0.7.98.4-2mdk.i586.rpm
> ����������...
> ##################################################
> irssi
> ##################################################
>
>
> because
>
> {pts/2}% rpm -q --provides irssi | grep dcc
> libfe_irc_dcc.so
> libirc_dcc.so
>
> That is dangerous IMHO. urpmi must ask user if selected packages were
> result of fuzzy matching.
>
> Additionally, sometimes I do want to use fuzzy matching but can't
> because precise match exists (like "kernel"). Would --fuzzy flag for
> urpmi be of some interest to others?
It can effectively be nice, effectively urpmi do not use fuzzy whenever a name
given correspond to a package name (or provides).
--fuzzy would not be hard to implement (avoid quick access search).
Fran�ois.
