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| From: | Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> |
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| To: | Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o> |
| Subject: | [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names |
| Date: | Fri, 02 Dec 2016 18:03:18 |
| Message-Id: | CAJ0EP429ajWiVg8wSVdqaL7QWG=OLyPGXOpDV0g4ug9wvePBeA@mail.gmail.com |
| 1 | The devmanual states: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters, |
| 4 | the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase |
| 5 | characters are strongly discouraged, but technically valid. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html |
| 8 | |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged? |
| 11 | |
| 12 | Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention? |
| Subject | Author |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names | Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names | Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names | Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names | "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> |