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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 14:06:41
Message-Id: 20030528140638.GA12271@cerberus.oppresses.us
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs by Georgi Georgiev
1 On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 06:06:37PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
2 > On 28/05/2003 at 04:47:01(-0400), Kumba used 0.7Kbytes just to say:
3 > > Not all users are going to immediately know the different categories
4 > > offhand. I'd have to opt for the ability that if portage detected a
5 > > naming conflict, it'd show both matches + categories so the user would
6 > > know which one he/she wanted.
7 >
8 > And abort execution, right?
9
10 Policy is to avoid naming conflicts by using different names whenever
11 possible.
12
13 >
14 > > OTOH, calling it net-www/mozillafirebird isn't a bad idea. I don't
15 > > think we need caps in there, caps seems to be reserved for dev-perl
16 > > stuff only.
17 >
18 > Since the caps are used for splitting the two words, an extra dash would be
19 > needed instead of the caps. Concatenating the two makes it hard to read and personally, it would be hard for me to type.
20
21 Caps are against policy.
22
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Mozilla: Firebird-bin & Firebird-cvs George Shapovalov <george@g.o>