Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Joe Sapp <nixphoeni@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 18:06:39
Message-Id: 4AF708A4.10505@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse: - New directory by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > if it makes maintaining a package easier (as appears to be the case for Joe),
3 > then there's no technical reason whatsoever to tell him otherwise. if you
4 > dislike mixed case, then dont use it. but Joe is free to do so.
5
6 For what it's worth, this is exactly the reason. The eclass can use a trivial
7 bash substitution to access the package name (for SRC_URI, for example)
8 instead of requiring each ebuild to set a variable specifying how the
9 information in the ebuild name should be capitalized.
10
11 Joe

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