Re: Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

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On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 09:39, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 07:28 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Please point to any RPM package that uses non-ASCII characters in the
>> package name, from any repo.
> You hardly will find any, because probably all rpm-based distros apply
> rules similar to that of Fedora (e.g. SUSE does as well) and because
> people trying to implement them will be facing technically difficulties
> at various places.
>
> Anyway, what you will find is tarball-names containing non-ASCII
> characters, which would require transliteration to make these tarballs'
> names to fit into Fedora's package-naming rules.
>

Yum doesn't work with tarballs.


> We've repeatedly had this case in Fedora. One case, I (vaguely) remember
> was a font-package submission, which applied French accented characters
> in its tarball name.
> ÂIt back then had triggered a discussion similar to this, because the
> package submitter Âhad refused to transliterate the package name into ASCII.
>

That is nationalism. Any time ego is involved people will be made to
suffer. Fortunately, Stallman had the foresight to give us an easy way
out: the right to repackage with a different name that fits the
distro's naming conventions.

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Dotan Cohen

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