Should package search be case sensitive?

[lucasgarfield]

Most package names are all lower case, but some package names do have capital letters. Consider the package NetworkManager. At the moment making a request for networkmanager will not yield NetworkManager in the response. I propose that the package search should be case insensitive.

[ondrejbudai]

I like this idea, do you want to look into it?

[lucasgarfield]

Yes, I will look into it and submit a PR and we can evaluate from there!

[teg]

One thing to keep in mind: ideally we would push the searching down to dnf eventually, rather than do it ourselves. So let's check that dnf supports whatever features we add, so that such a refactor would be transparent to the user.

[lucasgarfield]

I think performing case insensitive search may actually bring us closer to dnf's behavior:

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#search-command

Search Command
Command: search
Aliases: se

dnf [options] search [--all] <keywords>...Search package metadata for keywords. Keywords are 
matched as case-insensitive substrings, globbing is supported. By default lists packages that 
match all requested keys (AND operation). Keys are searched in package names and summaries. 
If the “–all” option is used, lists packages that match at least one of the keys (an OR operation). 
In addition the keys are searched in the package descriptions and URLs. The result is sorted from 
the most relevant results to the least.

[teg]

Perfect! Thanks for checking :)