Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?
Ralf Corsepius
rc040203 at freenet.de
Tue Mar 8 10:41:53 UTC 2011
On 03/08/2011 11:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Cameron Simpson<cs at zip.com.au> wrote:
>> I don't see people aguing for making yum (and other commands) cope with
>> misspelt things; case sensitivity is the same issue.
>
> I disagree strongly. Misspelt package names is not the same as
> spelling it right but not matching the right case.
Are you serious, feRNANDo? The spelling being used is suppose to match
that of upstream - Similarly to your parents having named you "Fernando"
and not "fernando"?
> In the previous example, I knew I wanted "Perl-xml-parser".
With a little experience, you would have known that all Fedora
perl*-module follow a strict naming scheme: perl-<module>, with <module>
being named the upstream's perl-module naming.
> Does Red Hat allow two packages with the same name, but different
> capitalization?.
In Fedora, in general, nothing prohibits packages whose names only
differ in capitalization. However, I am not aware about any real world
case having happened so far.
Ralf
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