Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse: - New directory

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:

>> "The first subsection, pkg, is the package name, which should only
>> contain lowercase letters, the digits 0-9, and any number of single
>> hyphen (-), underscore (_) or plus (+) characters."

> try quoting from the PMS which has been council approved

That's not a contradiction.

There are several places where the devmanual is more restrictive than
PMS. Of course the package manager must accept capital letters in
names. That doesn't necessarily imply that they should be used all
over the tree.

Ulrich