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From: Pete Gavin <pete@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new package
Date: Thu Feb 22 09:22:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010222092128.A17822@cvs.gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010220182303.A2550@kabbu.akopia.com>; from jerry@thehutt.org on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:23:03PM -0500

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 06:23:03PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
> Okay, one comment.  Could we please standardize on a naming convention.
> It's like we translate everything to lowercase for the directory names
> with the notable exceptions of the contents of x11-wm/ and one or two
> other directories.
> 
> Yeah, it's silly and it's small potatoes.  But I think that there is
> something to be said for the hobgoblin of this small mind and having
> some consistency.

Daniel, maybe you could make portage print out a simple warning
message if the package name contains any uppercase characters? That
way people new to gentoo that make new packages will know the names
should be en all-lowercase.

Pete




  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-22 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-20 16:19 [gentoo-dev] new package Pete Gavin
2001-02-20 16:23 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-20 16:35   ` Pete Gavin
2001-02-20 17:43   ` drobbins
2001-02-22  9:22   ` Pete Gavin [this message]
2001-02-22  9:29   ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22  9:37   ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22  9:58     ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 10:12       ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 10:29         ` drobbins
2001-02-22 10:36           ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 11:05             ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 11:07               ` drobbins
2001-02-22 11:37                 ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 12:10                   ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 12:12                     ` drobbins
2001-02-22 12:27                       ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 12:48                         ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 11:24               ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 10:37         ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 10:42           ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-22 11:02             ` Jerry A!
2001-02-22 11:46               ` Achim Gottinger
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-03-11 14:54 Pete Gavin
2001-03-11 15:51 ` drobbins

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