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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 07:15:10
Message-Id: 22594.28882.447716.276210@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names by William Hubbs
1 >>>>> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016, William Hubbs wrote:
2
3 > So, should we clean up / rename packages that do not follow this as
4 > we find them, like my ConfigArgParse example?
5
6 I still think that for any names exposed to users we should in general
7 stick to lowercase. Converting the name to uppercase for SRC_URI etc.
8 should be trivial, especially in EAPI 6 where bash's case conversion
9 operators are available.
10
11 The ebuild has to be written only once, while users will type the
12 package name many times.
13
14 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>