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 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
