Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

[Dotan Cohen]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 22:59, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield at axion.net> wrote:
> On 03/08/2011 06:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
>> You don't have two houses on the same street with the same number, but
>> different number placement.
>
> Your argument is based on the idea that lower and upper case versions of
> a letter refer to the same thing. Actually, they are two separate
> characters, and always have been, so distinguishing between them is only
> logical.
>

Not true. Computers treat the two cases as separate characters because
there is no mechanism of having different versions of the same
character. However, humans treat the two cases as two forms of the
same character.

The question then reduces to: should the yum interface be designed to
be comfortable for a computer to interface with, or should the yum
interface be comfortable for a human to interface with.

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