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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse: - New directory
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:26:58
Message-Id: 1257693956.8341.1433.camel@tablet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse: - New directory by Mike Frysinger
1 В Вск, 08/11/2009 в 09:40 -0500, Mike Frysinger пишет:
2 > On Sunday 08 November 2009 08:35:10 Joe Sapp wrote:
3 > > Samuli Suominen wrote:
4 > > > Joe Sapp (nixphoeni) wrote:
5 > > >> nixphoeni 09/10/27 11:21:25
6 > > >>
7 > > >> Log: Directory /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse added
8 > > >> to the repository
9 > > >
10 > > > Since when did we start adding "big letters" to other than perl
11 > > > -categories?
12 > > >
13 > > > *Very* ugly.
14 > >
15 > > Sorry about that, I thought it was a valid package name. I did it because
16 > > it better reflects the upstream naming schemes. I suppose I could stop
17 > > and move the few I've done so far back to all lowercase if there's enough
18 > > consensus.
19 >
20 > it is a valid package name. if it makes your life easier, you're allowed to
21 > use the name. some people prefer to normalize everything lowercase -- if
22 > they're maintaining the package, they're free to do that.
23
24 Until it was decided differently, no, it's not:
25 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap3
26
27 "The first subsection, pkg, is the package name, which should only
28 contain lowercase letters, the digits 0-9, and any number of single
29 hyphen (-), underscore (_) or plus (+) characters."
30
31 --
32 Peter.

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