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Bug 366521 - Please allow "searching for similar names..." to be disabled
Summary: Please allow "searching for similar names..." to be disabled
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 363137
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2011-05-09 01:19 UTC by Tom Noonan
Modified: 2011-05-09 03:41 UTC (History)
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Description Tom Noonan 2011-05-09 01:19:34 UTC 
While a nice feature for new users, many older users feel that functionality akin to the "searching for similar names..." feature is unnecessary and a waste of resources.  Personally I prefer that when I typo an input to a command the command simply report the error and stop.  I don't need portage to try and figure out what I mean, and I don't want it to waste the power to do so.  I prefer portage to do what I say, and error out otherwise.

I ask that the devs please allow users to disable this new functionality via a config option.  Thanks.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2011-05-09 03:37:04 UTC 
I believe this was addressed in bug 363137.
Comment 2 Tom Noonan 2011-05-09 03:41:09 UTC 
So it is.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 363137 ***