On Fri, 2021-02-26 at 13:58 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
On Fri, 2021-02-26 at 11:12 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
how would you see such a change?
I very much welcome it.
would the disruption be acceptable?
The reason which triggered me to bring up the "detect dependencies from patch" thread was the fact that I got reports from users who were confused by the search results of "osc". Currently, it seems hard to pick the right one. Removing implicit wildcard matching would help greatly. I don't know if removing implicit wildcard matching would cause troubles, but I can't think of any right now.
On second read, my reasoning seems based on one specific issue I experienced, so that's not a strong point.
But I honestly think that far more often you follow instructions and know exactly the name of the externals you want to install. I believe remembering only part of the name of an external is less common. As you say: If you only remember a part and you know it, you still can employ explicit wildcard characters. So yes, removing implicit wildcard matching would be an improvement.
Roman