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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:10:20
Message-Id: 20161202181008.0e77f6ed@snowblower
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names by Mike Gilbert
1 On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:02:48 -0500
2 Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
3 > The devmanual states:
4 >
5 > The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters,
6 > the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase
7 > characters are strongly discouraged, but technically valid.
8 >
9 > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html
10 >
11 >
12 > Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged?
13 >
14 > Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention?
15
16 What's upstream's naming convention for Firefox?
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>