Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 17:13:07 UTC 2007


Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:51:26 -0600
> Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> And the advantage of distributing all this work and making it be done
>> in a certain order over just forcing case insensitivity would be?
> 
> If you care about things being found with lower case, the best way to
> accomplish that is to make everything lower case.  Otherwise you're
> going to have differences in yum, vs rpm, vs ls, vs http, vs....

Agreed, but that's clearly not the case and this isn't a new concept.

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   Les Mikesell
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