Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?
JB
jb.1234abcd at gmail.com
Wed Mar 9 17:55:42 UTC 2011
Alan Evans <ame.fedora <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> 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
Fernando,
this thread is already longer than any SELinux related !
You are at risk for beeing marinated and sent into outer space ...
And it all started so innocently with 'yum install ...' :-) :-)
JB
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