Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 14 00:17:22 UTC 2011


On 3/10/11 7:14 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:40 PM, Mike Williams<dmikewilliams at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> php-pear-Auth-radius.noarch
>> php-pear-Auth-RADIUS.noarch
>>
>> Mike
> Interesting.
>
> This should be fixed, IMHO. :) The potential for inadvertedly
> installing the wrong package while meaning the other one is huge.
> There shouldn´t be different packages with the same name and only
> having different capitalization.
Correct.  These two packages do vastly different things and should be 
named as such.  One of the two appears to be misnamed as well.

James McKenzie



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