Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Fri Mar 11 06:45:27 UTC 2011


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 18:49, Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Your scripts alreaduy assume that you got the name right, and being
> automated generally speaking they are not looking at user provided names
> so its a non-problem.
>
> In fact your bigger problem is that adding broken new case insensitive
> comparisons may break those scripts.
>

The scripts won't break if the case-insensitivity is optional, say
with the -ci flag.

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