From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_12_24, INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,NO_RELAYS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from drobbins by cvs.gentoo.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14VzXw-0005xd-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:28:52 -0700 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new package Message-ID: <20010222102852.A22862@cvs.gentoo.org> References: <20010220161804.A2338@cvs.gentoo.org> <20010220182303.A2550@kabbu.akopia.com> <3A9539D4.C6CA70E3@gottinger.de> <20010222115808.A692@kabbu.reston.redhat.com> <3A954239.555AAE3A@gottinger.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A954239.555AAE3A@gottinger.de>; from AGottinger@t-online.de on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:45:45PM +0100 From: Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Feb 22 10:29:02 2001 X-Original-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:28:52 -0700 X-Archives-Salt: 27656f5f-e3a9-4d5a-a12d-76bb203ebd6b X-Archives-Hash: b9ff11c8cfa49ce8ebaaf9fbe9eec8fa 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. -- Daniel Robbins President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo Technologies, Inc.