Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

[Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 02:30:39PM +0200, Jano Kupec wrote:
> On 05/03/2010 07:54 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On 2010-05-03 04:09, Linda Walsh wrote:
> > > Carlos E. R. wrote:
> >
> > [sent later]
> >
> > > IMO, zypper shouldn't ignore case where rpm doesn't.  I don't
> > > know about how I feel about making "ignore case' the default.
> > > My initial feeling is 'neh', as it's not backwards compatible,
> > > but it certainly is more user friendly, so I'd have to backoff
> > > my initial feeling based on user-friendliness, if it can make
> > > it clear to those expecting earlier behavior that a match has 
> > > only matched using case insensitivity.
> >
> > Perhaps it ignores case because it is searching for a package and so it 
> > helps the user "memory" to
> > search for different spellings.
>
> yes. like 'zypper in mplayer' will indeed install MPlayer.

Probably also due to the provides in the MPlayer RPM:

rpm -q --provides MPlayer 
... 
mplayer-...
...

Ciao, Marcus
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