Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/11/2011 07:28 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the
> package name, from any repo.
You hardly will find any, because probably all rpm-based distros apply 
rules similar to that of Fedora (e.g. SUSE does as well) and because 
people trying to implement them will be facing technically difficulties 
at various places.

Anyway, what you will find is tarball-names containing non-ASCII 
characters, which would require transliteration to make these tarballs' 
names to fit into Fedora's package-naming rules.

We've repeatedly had this case in Fedora. One case, I (vaguely) remember 
was a font-package submission, which applied French accented characters 
in its tarball name.
  It back then had triggered a discussion similar to this, because the 
package submitter  had refused to transliterate the package name into ASCII.

Ralf