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, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3,RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.81]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14VzeT-00062e-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:35:38 -0700 Received: from fwd04.sul.t-online.com by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14VzfQ-00089T-04; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:36:36 +0100 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[217.80.39.199]) by fwd04.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14Vzf7-09KYtsC; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:36:17 +0100 Received: (qmail 1898 invoked by uid 0); 22 Feb 2001 20:18:30 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gottinger.de) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 22 Feb 2001 20:18:30 -0000 Message-ID: <3A9547D8.17256422@gottinger.de> From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] new package 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> <20010222102852.A22862@cvs.gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net 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 X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Thu Feb 22 10:36:01 2001 X-Original-Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 18:09:44 +0100 X-Archives-Salt: 4fe1306e-0811-418f-a843-35c645422ddb X-Archives-Hash: 29ff14d11f6cc655bf5a8f8a20599504 drobbins@gentoo.org wrote: > > 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. > Well you should use MacOS X if you want this. :-) The old MacOS fs was case insensitive, that's why these routines are in MacOS/X achim~ > -- > Daniel Robbins > President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org > Gentoo Technologies, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev