Re: [gentoo-dev] new package

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

drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 07:43:31PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I say that we leave things as-is but begin investigating a MacOS X version
> of Portage :)))

?? Using case-sensitivity for SRC_URI and case-insensitivity for
dependencies?

Well I think in this case you must write an case insensitive bash
parser.

:-)

Mac OS's fs allows other things like storing multiple files under the
same 
name. I read an article about the MacOS X development and problems the
developers had with the port. Unfortunately I don't find it.

I hope this is theory for now.

achim~
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