Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Mon Nov 26 22:49:15 UTC 2007


Am Montag, den 26.11.2007, 21:03 +0100 schrieb Ralf Ertzinger:
> Hi.
> 
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:55:34 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote
> 
> > Search is case insensitive, list is a search.  However packages are
> > case sensitive.  While we don't /currently/ have a Miro and a miro,
> > the rpm database would allow for it, thus install/removal actions
> > need to be case sensitive.
> 
> How about "try case sensitive first, and insensitive if the first does
> not turn up anything"?
> 

How about: human learns that yum/unix/linux is case sensitive, doesn't
make mistake again.




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