Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

nodata lsof at nodata.co.uk
Tue Nov 27 22:03:49 UTC 2007


Am Dienstag, den 27.11.2007, 11:55 -0500 schrieb Jesse Keating:
> 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....
> 
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But search is already case insensitive.

When is this useful? When the user is guessing package names?




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