Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 03/11/2011 09:13 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:39, Ralf Corsepius<rc040203 at freenet.de>  wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Yum doesn't work with tarballs.
rpmbuild does, so do the Fedora guidelines.

Ralf