Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Tue Mar 8 15:14:41 UTC 2011


On 03/08/2011 02:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Does Red Hat allow two packages with the same name, but different
> capitalization?. I rest my case.

As far as Linux is concerned, if the capitalization is different, so is 
the name.  Linux is relentlessly case-sensitive, and yum is just 
following the standard in this regard.


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