You can see the naming policy in the Gentoo Development policy:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/policy.xml

Chris

On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 18:42, Dave Nellans wrote: 
> do we have an established naming policy for ebuilds, and where can i
> find it?
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