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