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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:49:25 +0100 Christian Parpart <trapni@g.o> |
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wrote: |
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| I recently came into an issue of the ebuild names. usually I |
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| write them all lower case (that is: as-is), but recently, I |
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| run into packages to be submittet, that HavE different cAsEs. |
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| Namely the freedesktop's xlibs and xserver. |
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<snip> |
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| So, what's the policy on it? |
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In general, use lowercase except where not using lowercase would cause a |
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nasty conflict between the portage tree and upstream (perl modules seem |
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to be the canonical example here). |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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