Re: [gentoo-dev] policy on case [in]sEnsiTiViTy to ebuild names

[Markus Nigbur <pyrania@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 23:57 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:49:25 +0100 Christian Parpart <trapni@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> | I recently came into an issue of the ebuild names. usually I 
> | write them all lower case (that is: as-is), but recently, I 
> | run into packages to be submittet, that HavE different cAsEs. 
> | Namely the freedesktop's xlibs and xserver.
> <snip>
> | So, what's the policy on it?
> 
> In general, use lowercase except where not using lowercase would cause a
> nasty conflict between the portage tree and upstream (perl modules seem
> to be the canonical example here).

Isn't the unwritten policy to name the packages as they are named
upstream?
Admitted, if the developer(s) of a package think "MyP4cK4g3" would be
the best way to name their piece of software, it would looks quite
silly, but we don't need to confuse our users even more with naming our
package something more adequate, like "myp4ck4g3" or even "mypackage".

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