Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 14:05:28 UTC 2011


On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 11:53:04 -0200
Fernando Cassia wrote:

>No, it does the renaming just fine. Case sensitiveness if for file
>creation or renames. File reads are case-insensitive.

Maybe on some systems, but I know I've had other systems with
case insensitive file names whine at me for trying to rename
only changing case. Perhaps windows and fat32?

> Pretty clever, if you ask me. The user, not dogma, is first.

If the user was first, the user could have a file named
README.txt and another file named Readme.txt. Seems like
dogma is first to me.


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