Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

[Alan Cox]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:32:16 +0200
Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:22, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> >> Do there exist Fedora packages with those characters in the package
> >> names?
> >
> > c.f. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines
> >
> 
> Thanks, Ralf.
> 
> By virtue of that link, we have reduced the problem to simply ASCII
> uppercase and ASCII lowercase character case insensitivity for
> installing packages via Yum. There is no need to generalise the issue
> to filenames, other operating systems, non-ASCII languages, or
> anything else.

Fedora naming guidelines only apply to Fedora, so the answer is you
haven't because of third party repositories. In fact you actually hit
some problems with this and have to recompile the Fedora RPM packages and
tweak them a bit sometimes because they otherwise blow up on what every
other distro considers a valid RPM version character of '~'