Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 26 20:06:14 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:03 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> 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"?

yes, b/c we love it so much when computer programs try to think for us.

-sv





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