Should "yum install" be case sensitive?
Robert 'Bob' Jensen
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Mon Nov 26 23:27:45 UTC 2007
Till Maas wrote:
> On Mo November 26 2007, seth vidal wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> How about making it case unsensitive only when assume-yes (or -y) is not set?
> This way the use is always asked whether he really wants this? Or make yum
> suggest other packages that are available but differ in case, e.g. printing a
> message like "foo is not available, but there is a package Foo".
>
> Regards,
> Till
>
And people complain that yum is slow now... I can't see this speeding
things up.
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