Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

[Les Mikesell]

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, seth vidal wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 02:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> There is a real need to solve the problem that OP talks about. It has
>>> bitten me more than once including precisely the example cited: Miro. I
>>> am not sure what would be the best solution though. Debian does it by
>>> enforcing lower case on all their packages IIRC.
>>
>> Yes and that is what we should do - enforce lower case on all packages.
>>
>> Policy problems should be handled in policy, not by adding crack to
>> software.
> 
> Amen. I hate typing WeIRdPaCKageNaMEs as much as the next guy, but 
> depsolvers guess package names is not a good idea. Someboy wants it bad 
> enough, it should be easy enough to write yum-didyoumean plugin that 
> does elaborate guesswork and offers near matches "Did you mean foo?" ala 
> Google.
> 
> Can we finally have the lower case on package names policy? Pretty please?

Kind of late in the game to ask for that without providing a means to 
keep working as the change is implemented by each packager separately, 
isn't it?  The existing dependencies aren't going to all be fixed on the 
same day.

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