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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse: - New directory
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:50:17
Message-Id: 200911081052.00731.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse: - New directory by Peter Volkov
1 On Sunday 08 November 2009 10:25:56 Peter Volkov wrote:
2 > В Вск, 08/11/2009 в 09:40 -0500, Mike Frysinger пишет:
3 > > On Sunday 08 November 2009 08:35:10 Joe Sapp wrote:
4 > > > Samuli Suominen wrote:
5 > > > > Joe Sapp (nixphoeni) wrote:
6 > > > >> nixphoeni 09/10/27 11:21:25
7 > > > >>
8 > > > >> Log: Directory /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse
9 > > > >> added to the repository
10 > > > >
11 > > > > Since when did we start adding "big letters" to other than perl
12 > > > > -categories?
13 > > > >
14 > > > > *Very* ugly.
15 > > >
16 > > > Sorry about that, I thought it was a valid package name. I did it
17 > > > because it better reflects the upstream naming schemes. I suppose I
18 > > > could stop and move the few I've done so far back to all lowercase if
19 > > > there's enough consensus.
20 > >
21 > > it is a valid package name. if it makes your life easier, you're allowed
22 > > to use the name. some people prefer to normalize everything lowercase --
23 > > if they're maintaining the package, they're free to do that.
24 >
25 > Until it was decided differently, no, it's not:
26 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#do
27 > c_chap3
28 >
29 > "The first subsection, pkg, is the package name, which should only
30 > contain lowercase letters, the digits 0-9, and any number of single
31 > hyphen (-), underscore (_) or plus (+) characters."
32
33 try quoting from the PMS which has been council approved
34 -mike

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