* Linda Walsh
No! Linux is case-sensitive. And linux is famous for not being user-friendly. Something many
Patrick Shanahan wrote: people would like to see changed.
Yes, the command-line is known for not being user-friendly, but not the gooie. The gooie *has* changed that.
Default should be case-sensitive, no problem about an option to toggle/change that, perhaps with prominent notice. But default should be least surprise and history would make that case-sensitive.
And now your using Bill Gates logic that linux can't progress because it has to be backward compatible with a poor interface?
"Bill Gates logic", now that's an oxymoron! But, yes, things need to be backward compatable. Poor interface ??
Are you a windows-counter agent?
Are you daft?
You need to think about what experienced users (ah, that would be me, who's used unix/linux since late 80's) can deal with, and what would make linux more popular and optimize the result.
Why, you poor young thing. :^) To be so young.
It's a simple multivariate equation. Solve for maximum. zypper isn't a program with a long history. There are few compatibility issues other than people being stuck in their old ways. But if you cater to them, no progress will ever be made.
You see *only* the small picture. Zypper must accept what the rest of linux accepts or it is different and in this case, that is bad, leads to confusion.
Being the person bitten by this instance of the bug (because I'm not used to differing case being accepted by two different package managers on linux, I am stating what would have made the situation acceptable to me -- as someone who as used unix and/or linux for over 20 years. A simple notification that it had ignored my case to make a match would be fine with me.
Agreed, it should not have ignored case and should have reported that it acted contrary to expected.
It would also make it more user friendly, which I think is a good thing.
User friendly is a "good thing" but not when it deviates from the "norm".
You aren't capable of adapting?
I have been *adapting* for 69 years :^).
-l
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