Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 09:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 22:19 +1030, Tim wrote:
> > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 08:17 -0200, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> > > 
> > > Does Red Hat allow two packages with the same name, but different
> > > capitalization?. I rest my case.
> > 
> > I can't say that I've ever seen any valid reason for filename case
> > sensitivity.  Yes, I know it's easier for file/pattern matching to treat
> > every letter differently, including casing.  But that's hardly a
> > justification for wanting case sensitive file systems.
> 
> Back when I started using Unix (1975!) the case-sensitivity was one of
> the things that made me love it. Of course that was when pretty much
> every other system only had UPPER CASE (not to mention filenames with 6
> alphanumeric characters and a three-character extension).
> 
> Anyway I like it and I don't want it to change *most of the time*. I do
> however find myself using "grep -i" rather a lot, and I wish similar
> conventions existed in other tools. If for example rpm had a
> "case-insensitive" flag (can't be '-i' because it's taken), a certain
> amount of frustration might be saved.
> 
> poc
> 

I think the case insensitive flag for yum is the best idea I have heard
yet,
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