[Bug 507294] [RFE] Allow wildcards/regexps in yum install/upgrade/comps...

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--- Comment #5 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-06-22 14:08:53 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> > but I'm quite sure it should be exposed at the yum level at least. Having 
> > apps auto-install fonts when they find the need in a document is great,
> > but sometimes users want to install fonts before they've started typing
> > their document
> 
>  Then open-office writer can hook in and ask to install some fonts. Or people
> can just look for a font name they recognise in PK or yum. I find it really
> hard to believe people are going to think "Oh, I need to write a document. Oh I
> don't have any fonts. Oh let's just install all English fonts with 'yum install
> fonts(*;lang=en;*)'. ".

just open google, the internet is full of yum install instructions for fonts

also many new users do not know Linux font names, but they know how to type
instructions taken from an howto

> > Actually, I'm quite sure people will do. The internet is littered with yum
> > recipes to install particular fonts (either "here is how to install dejavu
> > lgc", or "here is how to install every available thai font").
> 
>  You are implying that people need weird specific subsets, in the above two
> cases I'd suggest:
> 
>  yum install dejavu\*

This will work for dejavu because the package has sane naming. It won't work
for other fonts

>  yum install \*-fonts  

That won't help to install 'all greek fonts" available for example, which is
what people do (replace greek with any langage)

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