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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 21:14:18
Message-Id: CAJ0EP40EQ0urvfzr2kT3fB_HZvaTT2YRRaDcydLQf+8RzoQAfA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names by "Michał Górny"
1 On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:02:48 -0500
3 > Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> The devmanual states:
6 >>
7 >> The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters,
8 >> the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase
9 >> characters are strongly discouraged, but technically valid.
10 >>
11 >> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html
12 >>
13 >>
14 >> Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged?
15 >>
16 >> Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention?
17 >
18 > I'd say keeping things lowercase makes sense for end user packages. For
19 > pure dependencies with consistent conventions (e.g. perl), it makes
20 > sense to keep upstream's naming.
21 >
22
23 This seems like a reasonable approach. Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Uppercase characters in package names William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>