Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Mar 10 08:22:02 UTC 2011


On 03/10/2011 09:17 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 15:53, Alan Cox<alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>  wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> For a small subset of Western European languages and subject to all sorts
>> of caveats. Perhaps we should ask the same of say accented v unaccented
>> letters (where the policy of being the same is very language dependant)
>> or about languages of the rest of the world (the ones actually used by
>> far more people than English variants).
>>
>
> Do there exist Fedora packages with those characters in the package
> names?

c.f. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines

Ralf


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