Re: [gentoo-dev] new package

[AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

"Jerry A!" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 11:06:28AM -0700, drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:
> : On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:04:48PM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
> : > On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:09:44PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> : > : drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:
> : > :
> : > : 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
> : >
> : > Well, what about having the directories be lowercase (since those names
> : > don't affect the portage) and then have only mixed-case ebuilds?
> : >
> : > No, I have no idea why I'm even asking about this other than the fact
> : > that most people's pinkys are too lazy to hit the shift key.  8)
> :
> : Nope, that won't work.  I like consistency.
> 
> Okay, just a suggestion.  Geez, they can't all be winners (my
> suggestions).  8)

How about that compromise. We use lowercases for all categories beside
dev-perl. This whould mean we change three or four package names and
makes
our categories look nicer.
For perl modules we continue using case sensitive names because the
majority of packages uses upper-cases and it reduces typing.

achim~
> 
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