Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse: - New directory

[Peter Volkov <pva@gentoo.org>]

В Вск, 08/11/2009 в 09:40 -0500, Mike Frysinger пишет:
> On Sunday 08 November 2009 08:35:10 Joe Sapp wrote:
> > Samuli Suominen wrote:
> > > Joe Sapp (nixphoeni) wrote:
> > >> nixphoeni    09/10/27 11:21:25
> > >>
> > >> Log: Directory /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse added
> > >> to the repository
> > >
> > > Since when did we start adding "big letters" to other than perl
> > > -categories?
> > >
> > > *Very* ugly.
> > 
> > Sorry about that, I thought it was a valid package name.  I did it because
> >  it better reflects the upstream naming schemes.  I suppose I could stop
> >  and move the few I've done so far back to all lowercase if there's enough
> >  consensus.
> 
> it is a valid package name.  if it makes your life easier, you're allowed to 
> use the name.  some people prefer to normalize everything lowercase -- if 
> they're maintaining the package, they're free to do that.

Until it was decided differently, no, it's not:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap3

"The first subsection, pkg, is the package name, which should only
contain lowercase letters, the digits 0-9, and any number of single
hyphen (-), underscore (_) or plus (+) characters."

-- 
Peter.