On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 09:47 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 22:19 +1030, Tim wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 08:17 -0200, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > > > > > Does Red Hat allow two packages with the same name, but different > > > capitalization?. I rest my case. > > > > I can't say that I've ever seen any valid reason for filename case > > sensitivity. Yes, I know it's easier for file/pattern matching to treat > > every letter differently, including casing. But that's hardly a > > justification for wanting case sensitive file systems. > > Back when I started using Unix (1975!) the case-sensitivity was one of > the things that made me love it. Of course that was when pretty much > every other system only had UPPER CASE (not to mention filenames with 6 > alphanumeric characters and a three-character extension). > > Anyway I like it and I don't want it to change *most of the time*. I do > however find myself using "grep -i" rather a lot, and I wish similar > conventions existed in other tools. If for example rpm had a > "case-insensitive" flag (can't be '-i' because it's taken), a certain > amount of frustration might be saved. > > poc > I think the case insensitive flag for yum is the best idea I have heard yet, -- ======================================================================= A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
