Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Nov 27 16:55:08 UTC 2007


On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:51:26 -0600
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> And the advantage of distributing all this work and making it be done
> in a certain order over just forcing case insensitivity would be?

If you care about things being found with lower case, the best way to
accomplish that is to make everything lower case.  Otherwise you're
going to have differences in yum, vs rpm, vs ls, vs http, vs....

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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