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