Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:10:02 +0530
Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> seth vidal wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >> They already do in a lot of occasions anyway. Is there a real reason not 
> >> to do this? I always hated finding out that some package have 
> >> capitalizations for no obvious reasons. MySQL or mysql or Mysql... Being 
> >> able to just type yum install mysql without having to worry about the 
> >> specifics would be nice.
> > 
> > yes, b/c it is a really bad idea.
> > 
> > much like having: rm -rf foo actually be case insensitive.
> 
> I understood you think it is a bad idea but if yum already checks first 
> to see if there is a perfect match and then does a more fuzzy search, I 
> don't see a problem with it. There are people who do yum -y remove foo 
> and then blame yum. I think your rm -rf example is similar.

Here's the problem with it:  Seth thinks it's a bad idea.  He's the
upstream for yum.

josh

p.s. I think it's a bad idea too for what it's worth.