On Thursday 06 May 2010 02:32:28 Linda Walsh wrote:
Michael Andres wrote:
On Wednesday 05 May 2010 14:40:52 Jano Kupec wrote:
I (and i hope many people too) find it annoying to type 'in MPlayer' instead of 'in mplayer', to give an example. So i qualify this as a feature.
IMO not. A human typing the name may say e.g. 'zypper in --ic mplayer' (--ic=ignore case). Or a --no-ic switch for scripts. Anyway I'd like to be able to influence the amount of AI.
--- agreed, But don't you agree, that to be friendlier to the general populace, that AI should be switched on by default, and that 'expert' mode should require the switch (--no-ic)
I still think the general populace appreciates predictable and reliable tools, so I can't agree. Not executing the comand as I typed it, is IMO not friendly but insubordinate :) Zypper is not the only command whose behavior I have to remember. If zypper was friendly, it would follow the 'Principle of Least Surprise' and behave like all the other cool commands: It would do exactly what I typed. I also don't think it's friendly to make some novice assume package names were not case sensitive. To me '--ic' is the expert switch, because you need to know that the names outside zypper may look different, and why. And in case you managed zypper to install mplayer and MPlayer at the same time, you need to be able to spot this and you need to know how to recover. -- cu, Michael Andres +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Key fingerprint = 2DFA 5D73 18B1 E7EF A862 27AC 3FB8 9E3A 27C6 B0E4 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael Andres YaST Development ma@novell.com SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany, ++49 (0)911 - 740 53-0 +------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org