Subject: Re: Bootstrapping
To: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/10/2005 09:45:12
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Georg Schwarz wrote:

> Speaking of bootstrapping, so far I did not experience any issues by
> not using a case-sensitive file system [...]

Not all packages will work well that way.  Case sensitivity is assumed by
*some* (but not most) packages.  That's why bootstrapping on a
case-insensitive fs is a warning that you have to work around manually.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com> <todd@vierling.name>