On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Fernando Cassia wrote:
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Tim
<ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> But that's hardly a
> justification for wanting case sensitive file systems.
OMG you're questioning one of the pilars of the *nix religion!!
Watch out for the flood of responses telling you that is THE WAY IT
IS, and how things are supposed to work. ;)
Whether yum and rpm should be case-sensitive and whether file
systems should be case-sensitive are distinct questions.
An ascii names-only file system could probably be case insensitive.
As others have noted, non-English languages would present problems.
For all I know, some English variants might also.
As I see it, within the current system,
a case-insensitive variant of rpm would:
collect all the names from the various repositories.
hash them in a case-insensitive manner
hash user-provided names in the same manner
perform case-insensitive and case sensitive compares
Is that practical?
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