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On 12/02/2016 10:47 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:02:48 -0500 |
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> Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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>> The devmanual states: |
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>> The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters, |
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>> the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase |
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>> characters are strongly discouraged, but technically valid. |
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>> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html |
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>> Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged? |
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>> Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention? |
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> I'd say keeping things lowercase makes sense for end user packages. For |
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> pure dependencies with consistent conventions (e.g. perl), it makes |
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> sense to keep upstream's naming. |
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What is a pure dependency? Do we handle those differently than the |
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garden-variety dependencies in other packages? |
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