Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Mon Nov 26 23:22:43 UTC 2007


On Mo November 26 2007, seth vidal wrote:

> I already explained why. You do not play 'do what I mean' games with
> software that can nuke your whole box or destroy all your data.

How about making it case unsensitive only when assume-yes (or -y) is not set? 
This way the use is always asked whether he really wants this? Or make yum 
suggest other packages that are available but differ in case, e.g. printing a 
message like "foo is not available, but there is a package Foo".

Regards,
Till
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