Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Tue Nov 27 08:32:51 UTC 2007


On Di November 27 2007, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
> Till Maas wrote:

> > 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".

> And people complain that yum is slow now... I can't see this speeding
> things up.

This is faster than having to restart yum two more times, once to search for 
the real case and once to install it.

Regards,
Till
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