Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

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Once upon a time, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> There's no sane reason to have Readme.txt and README.TXT (or
> PayData01.ODT and PAYdata01.odt) as two different files in the same
> dir. Unless user confusion is part of an OS design goal. ;)

That isn't too much of a problem in an ASCII world, but in UTF, trying
to handle case-insensitivity is a royal pain (and has caused security
issues).  The OS treats filenames as an opaque string, and that's how it
should be.

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