Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Nov 26 22:01:29 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 02:57 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Here's the problem with it:  Seth thinks it's a bad idea.  He's the
> > upstream for yum.
> 
> This sounds like "because I said so". There needs to be more substantial 
> arguments beyond gut feelings involved here. If you think something is a 
> bad idea, it would be good to explain why in a bit more detail if only 
> because it forces you to think about it a bit or try and offer some 
> suggestions to solve the problem in another way.

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.


-sv





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