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On Sunday 08 November 2009 12:15:44 Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> >> That doesn't necessarily imply that they should be used all over |
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> >> the tree. |
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> > if it makes maintaining a package easier (as appears to be the case |
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> > for Joe), then there's no technical reason whatsoever to tell him |
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> > otherwise. if you dislike mixed case, then dont use it. but Joe is |
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> > free to do so. |
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> Shouldn't the rationale be to make it easy for users, not for |
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> maintainers? |
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of course -- fix the package manager to do a case insensitive search when |
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someone says `emerge foo` but the package is actually "Foo". |
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-mike |
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