Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

Alan Evans ame.fedora at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 17:35:18 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> You can´t have all of them present because file creation is
> case-insensitive. Once A_Bottle_Of_Coke.txt is present, you cannot
> create A_BOTTLE_OF_COKE.tXt. But you´re free to rename the existing
> one to whatever capitalization you like :).

It seems to me that you are arguing to replace one set of problems
with another. The fact that it's less of a problem for you doesn't
mean that it's less of a problem for me.

I, for example, have directories that contain many files that differ
in name only by case. Maybe you can't think of a good reason to do
that, but it happens to be a very convenient arrangement in my case.
To me, "a.png" is *not* the same as "A.png", and that's the way I want
it.

-Alan


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