Re: [gentoo-dev] new package

drobbins@g.o wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:45:45PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
>
> > The only package that really needs care is ORBit. About 50 packages are in
> > dev-perl.  I personaly thought that using the sources name as we did it till
> > now makes more sense since it reduces the typing in the scripts.  But if you
> > guys are not happy with that change it.
>
> Yes, the reason why we have uppercase is because the original archive name /
> source directory also has uppercase.  This means that all the defaults get set
> up correctly.  For this reason alone, I think we should allow uppercase
> characters in /usr/portage.
>
> Exceptions:
>         If we are using uppercase for a package name, and the corresponding archive
>         or source directory doesn't use uppercase characters, then this should be
>         fixed so that we're using lowercase.
>
> This helps me to understand why MacOS X added case insensitive file comparison
> routines.  Ideally, I'd like the filesystem to preserve the original case but
> have:
>
> # cat foo
>
> and
>
> # cat Foo
>
> and
>
> # cat fOo
>
> ...cat the same file.
>
> After all, "D" and "d" are both a "d".  I'll see if I can track down a really
> interesting message about this that I can forward to the list.
>

Well you should use MacOS X if you want this. :-)

The old MacOS fs was case insensitive, that's why these routines are in
MacOS/X

achim~

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