[pacman-dev] Case sensitive options in pacman.conf
Xavier
shiningxc at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 12:23:20 EDT 2008
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:14:17AM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So I would vote for only allowing case sensitive options in pacman.conf, to
> > treat all locales equally, and cleaning the code :)
>
> I originally brought this up to Dan when I made the tr_TR change. I
> was for case-sensitive compares, but I think Dan had a bit of an issue
> with it. Dan, do you remember what it was?
>
15:40 <toofishes> i'm sure it is used by a handful of people
15:41 <toofishes> i know it isn't the prettiest, but i don't have a good
reason to get rid of it (as it has been this way for a long time, we just
fixed the issues with i <-> I)
And vmiklos said it was probably used by many users :
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-August/009168.html
I doubt that many users use it, since every keywords present in the default
pacman.conf have that same case format (RootDir, CacheDir, etc)
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