From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N7Awm-0000WW-Pj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:49:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAA7AE0923; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93F21E0923 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 063216764F for ; Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:48:59 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-plugins/desklet-Mouse: - New directory Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:50:45 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31.4; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <200911081052.00731.vapier@gentoo.org> <19190.62711.270387.910264@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <19190.62711.270387.910264@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3762209.nG1ATbf2Yj"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911081150.45490.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: e2e54770-44ab-42e5-b487-149df2d4e95c X-Archives-Hash: f5640f2e881b48f4696f993914640997 --nextPart3762209.nG1ATbf2Yj Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 08 November 2009 11:42:31 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 8 Nov 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >> "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." > > > > try quoting from the PMS which has been council approved >=20 > That's not a contradiction. >=20 > There are several places where the devmanual is more restrictive than > PMS. and in this case, the devmanual is irrelevant and should be deleted > Of course the package manager must accept capital letters in > names. right, because we've always had mixed case in the tree and anything that=20 parses the tree/ebuilds must support both if it has any chance of working. = =20 this isnt going to change. > That doesn't necessarily imply that they should be used all > over the tree. if it makes maintaining a package easier (as appears to be the case for Joe= ),=20 then there's no technical reason whatsoever to tell him otherwise. if you= =20 dislike mixed case, then dont use it. but Joe is free to do so. =2Dmike --nextPart3762209.nG1ATbf2Yj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJK9vblAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WB4BMP/jPfLnUjUzeHqEN8S6ZmtJMi 6ss5Hy75DqrLh/1uWZ7ZFbFLccEq20AZ5sJj1Jr2+DVUk5ksqeJnhW8Ou0bYKuqF ULzFbQAP54LJBw/PIHkxaLEwR5qWCzZBplc2NSSq3B6VEF09Q445Qj7EMSmdMzQH J+Rp+QlLEUa8ZdQFxKI3vkWbR8W0aLOTkPQuvQvlf05kmOd6tMEziXA9C7kRz0KA KMyW+yIPwjBGRtHRfOBx6I52K7DOZS+8N6ruiMNkhT6yhNwaiAvdi2f4Rucbe3QG vTHcRv5+1nIqoeoAxhwoDR00qys47usBnEHqnTeK2UF7GQho78/4ctMAcERFSEqb FieBfzqZcza38G2rEtB/s89rOJuohHYwWEFkPyrtxvWfAQ0v3WcxgAYkp+d1Ihzi W/7e2EQMJGol0SLc5dL8w85AExtJgwSCXXO5aguUucCO3Z4O4+ZK/hJ/4VPTuhAR uKWNalegsBwLDYtwm7DmGHTXeqbhy65paVbAmUP/29iG4E2N54ptnZoIWvaPpiYx q/JtDIR+alQ7YFY1Jn6yOAFmilhtijtC5sOt8A7ruKiw8IEDl8sLPAb8ueybpArj G/9wcR5cOP2EsxIa56EXcAnD315BcY2GNVHoatqKqsbzwlpFvl9nRX4iREMB+p8o DngAIL9pYV+WTO0jQKU9 =GbKq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3762209.nG1ATbf2Yj--