On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 01:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 21:03 +0100, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > >> Hi. > >> > >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:55:34 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote > >> > >>> Search is case insensitive, list is a search. However packages are > >>> case sensitive. While we don't /currently/ have a Miro and a miro, > >>> the rpm database would allow for it, thus install/removal actions > >>> need to be case sensitive. > >> How about "try case sensitive first, and insensitive if the first does > >> not turn up anything"? > > > > yes, b/c we love it so much when computer programs try to think for us. > > They already do in a lot of occasions anyway. Is there a real reason not > to do this? I always hated finding out that some package have > capitalizations for no obvious reasons. MySQL or mysql or Mysql... Being > able to just type yum install mysql without having to worry about the > specifics would be nice. yes, b/c it is a really bad idea. much like having: rm -rf foo actually be case insensitive. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
