Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

[Michael Hennebry]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Alan Evans wrote:

> 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.

As noted earlier, this is a distinct issue from whether yum and
rpm should be case-insensitive or have a case-insensitive option.
I'd be inclined to put warnings next to any case-insensitive
matches that were not also case-sensitive matches.

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