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On Sunday 08 November 2009 11:42:31 Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> >> "The first subsection, pkg, is the package name, which should only |
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> >> contain lowercase letters, the digits 0-9, and any number of single |
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> >> hyphen (-), underscore (_) or plus (+) characters." |
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> > try quoting from the PMS which has been council approved |
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> That's not a contradiction. |
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> There are several places where the devmanual is more restrictive than |
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> PMS. |
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and in this case, the devmanual is irrelevant and should be deleted |
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> Of course the package manager must accept capital letters in |
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> names. |
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right, because we've always had mixed case in the tree and anything that |
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parses the tree/ebuilds must support both if it has any chance of working. |
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this isnt going to change. |
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> That doesn't necessarily imply that they should be used all |
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> over the tree. |
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if it makes maintaining a package easier (as appears to be the case for Joe), |
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then there's no technical reason whatsoever to tell him otherwise. if you |
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dislike mixed case, then dont use it. but Joe is free to do so. |
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-mike |
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