Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Mon Nov 26 20:37:14 UTC 2007


On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:35:40 +0100
Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:

> Good plan! And while we are at it we should make yum remove case
> sensitive too, people will get really confused if "yum install
> StrANgECaps" works but "yum remove StrANgECaps" won't, so for
> consistency we really should make yum remove case insensitive too.

Or instead we make policy that any package that has WiErDCasIng have a
Provides: nameinlower.  Of course this will bloat the metadata somewhat.

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