On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 22:00 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Saturday 31 October 2009, Seth Vidal wrote:
> > nack - I'm pretty certain we're matching all langs intentionally.
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing the rationale.
> 
> The consequence I observe is that globbing operations currently produce 
> results a lot of which look plain bogus because only the localized name is 
> printed.  Your globs hit things that you didn't know even existed, and the 
> reason is in no way decipherable from the results displayed to you.  Matching 
> only the current language would not eliminate the problem as long as things 
> are matched against the untranslated name and id of the group/category (which 
> is understandable), but IMO it would significantly improve it.
> 
> Just try something, for example 'yum grouplist "h*"' gets me a list of 59 
> groups, of which 6 start with a 'h' which is what I asked.  After applying 
> this patch, I get only those 6 (incidentally - for other queries it'll still 
> produce some "odd" matches but less than before).

 We could maybe split this up for different operations, or maybe match
all translated names but only for direct (non-wildcard) matches.
 I think the problem we wanted to avoid is people having stuff like:

yum groupinstall 'Servidor de nombres DNS'

...in some script which is in the C locale (or even kickstart).

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