Should "yum install" be case sensitive?

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Nov 26, 2007 1:00 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 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.


I think your right, I think we get into less trouble long term by
making this a policy fix instead of a psuedo technical fix.  Unless we
can make a commitment all the way down the stack into the rpmdb to be
case insensitive for all package name operations, then we shouldn't
plaster over it by making yum install/remove case insensitive.

And besides, moving to all lowercase for package names mean that I can
finally navigate the bugzilla component pulldown menu reliably :->

Or turning the question on its head, is there anyone working on making
the syntax of yum searches more expressive so that I could do things
like requesting a case sensitive search?

-jef