Re: [gentoo-dev] new package

[<drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:45:45PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:

> The only package that really needs care is ORBit. About 50 packages are in
> dev-perl.  I personaly thought that using the sources name as we did it till
> now makes more sense since it reduces the typing in the scripts.  But if you
> guys are not happy with that change it.

Yes, the reason why we have uppercase is because the original archive name /
source directory also has uppercase.  This means that all the defaults get set
up correctly.  For this reason alone, I think we should allow uppercase
characters in /usr/portage.

Exceptions:
	If we are using uppercase for a package name, and the corresponding archive
	or source directory doesn't use uppercase characters, then this should be 
	fixed so that we're using lowercase.

This helps me to understand why MacOS X added case insensitive file comparison
routines.  Ideally, I'd like the filesystem to preserve the original case but
have:

# cat foo

and

# cat Foo

and

# cat fOo

...cat the same file.

After all, "D" and "d" are both a "d".  I'll see if I can track down a really
interesting message about this that I can forward to the list.

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.