Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?
Chris Smart
mail at christophersmart.com
Mon Mar 14 00:18:08 UTC 2011
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yum (which was based off of the Yellow Dog Unix system for Macs) was
Really? I thought it was Yellow Dog Linux for Power architecture
(which Macs were at the time).
> built on a case sensitive file system. Thus, to this day, it remains
> case sensitive. You can do things like
> new_file_name = lower(file with mixed and upper case)
> mv 'file with mixed and upper case' $new_file_name
> yum $new_file_name
>
In addition, at the core of ASCII and UTF-8 A != a. I'm sure it's
easier to be case sensitive, else you need additional overhead.
-c
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