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Date: Thu Feb 22 09:22:01 2001
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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