Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

[James McKenzie]

On 3/13/11 5:18 PM, Chris Smart wrote:
> 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).
>
You are correct here.  The target for Yellow Dog was the M68K chipsets 
that were popular and replaced with the G3/G4/G5 chipsets.  I don't know 
of many commercially viable M68K systems that were not built by Apple 
and had the Mac moniker on them.
>> 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.
>
True, and this applies mostly to Western languages, with maybe Viet as 
an exception.

The 'real' fun starts when you have a file in German with the double s 
character or an umlatted a, o or u and a file with the same but not 
containing the special characters or their Anglicized equivalents.

James McKenzie

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