Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 13:26:33 UTC 2011


On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 18:26, Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs986 at att.net> wrote:
> In many parts of the world, the difference can be quite profound -- the
> latter could cure your thirst, the former could put you in prison for a
> long, long time. Case _does_ matter.
>

I agree that yum should ignore case, so long as two packages with the
same name save for case do not exist. That said, a matter of case can
in fact be life or death:
http://gizmodo.com/#!382026/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-people-puts-three-more-in-jail

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Dotan Cohen

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