Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 13:34:19 -0300,
  Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > What does it do if you have all of them present?
> 
> You can´t have all of them present because file creation is
> case-insensitive. Once A_Bottle_Of_Coke.txt is present, you cannot
> create A_BOTTLE_OF_COKE.tXt. But you´re free to rename the existing
> one to whatever capitalization you like :).

You are assuming that case is an invariant property. It isn't. If you change
your locale, you change the the equivalances of of upper and lower case
characters. So the problem above could potentially happen if the locale
changed (with different characters than in the specific example).
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