Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Fernando Cassia wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> But that's hardly a
>> justification for wanting case sensitive file systems.
>
> OMG you're questioning one of the pilars of the *nix religion!!
>
> Watch out for the flood of responses telling you that is THE WAY IT
> IS, and how things are supposed to work. ;)

Whether yum and rpm should be case-sensitive and whether file
systems should be case-sensitive are distinct questions.

An ascii names-only file system could probably be case insensitive.
As others have noted, non-English languages would present problems.
For all I know, some English variants might also.

As I see it, within the current system,
a case-insensitive variant of rpm would:
collect all the names from the various repositories.
hash them in a case-insensitive manner
hash user-provided names in the same manner
perform case-insensitive and case sensitive compares

Is that practical?

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