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That's cool and all, but oh dear god WHY did you have to capitalize things?! BLASPHEMY.



Capitalizing the directory names is a way to guarantee that they will not conflict with the directories in the legacy file system hierarchy.


I find that to be quite a weak argument. Avoid conflicting with known standard structures such as "bin" ans "etc" if necessary (which it isn't—you could theoretically run all applications in a filesystem namespace mimicking their expected structure), but that should be the only concern. Non-standard structures might clash anyway (capitalized folders in root does unfortunately occur).


The known standard does change though. For example, since Gobolinux came out in 2003 the FSH added /run and /sys...


Case insensitive auto completion FTW.


That's a nice convenience feature, but when it starts to become a necessity, you should really reconsider your naming schemes...




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