On 3/9/11 3:23 AM, Tim wrote: > Tim: >>> I can't say that I've ever seen any valid reason for filename case >>> sensitivity. > Ralf Corsepius: >> Well did you just have some coke or was it Coke, tIM? > Neither. And I've still not seen a valid reason for *wanting* a case > sensitive file system. In the beginning, there was the file system and it was good. Case sensitivity was added at the request of the then UNIX developers and users. That is how UNIX came to be case sensitive. Yes, it can be a PITA, but that is the way it is and probably will always be. Windows, which was built off of MS-DOS, which was built off of L-DOS, which was used on systems that only supported upper case file names, was built to be case insensitive. That is the way it is and will always be. > Yes, I've seen reasons why it came to be, and why it may be hard to use > a case insensitive file system. But it's still not an argument for > wanting it to be that way. > You are about twenty years to late to be arguing this. Decisions were made YEARS ago in Linux as to whether to follow the UNIX path or DOS path. Linus wanted Linux to be 'as close as possible' to his target system and it had case sensitivity, thus Linux does now. Every improved file system has had it and in some cases NTFS does (and you have to watch out for them.) Yum (which was based off of the Yellow Dog Unix system for Macs) was 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 as a shell script and then use $1 for the file name or you can add the ability to prompt for the file name. I don't think yum developers are going to change its abilities until a very good case is made to have a case insensitive file system (and this must be based on more than feelings...) James McKenzie -- 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
