Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:26, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> By virtue of that link, we have reduced the problem to simply ASCII
>> uppercase and ASCII lowercase character case insensitivity for
>> installing packages via Yum. There is no need to generalise the issue
>> to filenames, other operating systems, non-ASCII languages, or
>> anything else.
>
> Fedora naming guidelines only apply to Fedora, so the answer is you
> haven't because of third party repositories. In fact you actually hit
> some problems with this and have to recompile the Fedora RPM packages and
> tweak them a bit sometimes because they otherwise blow up on what every
> other distro considers a valid RPM version character of '~'
>

The ~ character is fine, it would not be affected by case insensitivity.

Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the
package name, from any repo.

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