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From: Christian Parpart <trapni@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] policy on case [in]sEnsiTiViTy to ebuild names
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 23:49:27
Message-Id: 200411260049.27765.trapni@gentoo.org
1 Hi all,
2
3 I recently came into an issue of the ebuild names. usually I
4 write them all lower case (that is: as-is), but recently, I
5 run into packages to be submittet, that HavE different cAsEs.
6 Namely the freedesktop's xlibs and xserver.
7
8 In xlibs, there're packages called libXcomposite, libX11 etc..
9 I'd like to preserve the case in portage, too since doing
10 everything in lowercase doesn't really enheance readability
11 overall, and we already have (especially on dev-perl) packages
12 that also have upper-cases anyway.
13
14 So, what's the policy on it?
15
16 Thanks in advance,
17 Christian Parpart.
18
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20 http://www.winterschur.de/?fey <-- get sheeped!
21 Netiquette: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
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