[aur-general] [pacman][Feature Request] make pacman case-insensitive.

Lone_Wolf lonewolf at xs4all.nl
Fri Oct 12 10:22:47 EDT 2012


> Hello, all:
>
> When we run "pacman -S Firefox", we will get "error: target not found:
> Firefox" because there is only firefox, not Firefox, in repo. IMHO it
> could be better if pacman is case insensitive.
>
> Regards,
> Mizuchi
>
>
Bad idea for several reasons :

- Arch package names are all lower-case .
- linux filesystems are case sensitive by default
On linux This.txt and this.txt are 2 DIFFERENT files.

Case Matters.




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