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should be aware of cask suffix name stripping conventions
#13028
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should be aware of cask suffix name stripping conventions
#13028
Provide a detailed description of the proposed feature
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should automatically remove any of the suffixes that are supposed to be removed by packagers per https://docs.brew.sh/Cask-Cookbook#token-referenceWhat is the motivation for the feature?
Due to brew's cask package naming conventions: https://docs.brew.sh/Cask-Cookbook#token-reference,
Desktop
and similar are supposed to be stripped from the end of packages.Unfortunately, not all
brew
users know/understand these conventions, which means it isn't unusual for a user to hear aboutrancher-desktop
, and then trybrew search rancher-desktop
, when they do, they get results like this:How will the feature be relevant to at least 90% of Homebrew users?
Users will be able to do searches for products by the familiar name for the product and easily find the respective brew cask for it.
What alternatives to the feature have been considered?
brew search
do the work than force each cask author to do it).The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: