On 03/08/2011 11:17 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Cameron Simpson<cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I don't see people aguing for making yum (and other commands) cope with >> misspelt things; case sensitivity is the same issue. > > I disagree strongly. Misspelt package names is not the same as > spelling it right but not matching the right case. Are you serious, feRNANDo? The spelling being used is suppose to match that of upstream - Similarly to your parents having named you "Fernando" and not "fernando"? > In the previous example, I knew I wanted "Perl-xml-parser". With a little experience, you would have known that all Fedora perl*-module follow a strict naming scheme: perl-<module>, with <module> being named the upstream's perl-module naming. > Does Red Hat allow two packages with the same name, but different > capitalization?. In Fedora, in general, nothing prohibits packages whose names only differ in capitalization. However, I am not aware about any real world case having happened so far. Ralf -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
