Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

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On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:39:19 -0200,
  Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OS/2's HPFS and JFS does that...  YET, it makes file open requests
> case-insentitive, so it preserves whatever original capitalization (or
> capitalisation :) you used when you created the file, but when it
> comes to opening the file (typing the name on a file requester or
> command line), A_Bottle_of_coke.txt or A_bottle_of_Coke.txt or
> A_BOTTLE_OF_COkE.txt are exactly the same, you get to open the
> A_Bottle_of_Coke.txt that is present on the file system.

Capitalization depends on the locale. So the same command operating on the
same files can get different answers depending on what locale is being used
for the comparison. For at least some commands, this seems like a bad property.
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