On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:02:48 -0500 Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The devmanual states: > > The name section should contain only lowercase non-accented letters, > the digits 0-9, hyphens, underscores and plus characters. Uppercase > characters are strongly discouraged, but technically valid. > > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html > > > Why are uppercase characters strongly discouraged? > > Wouldn't it make sense to follow upstream's naming convention? > I think so. In at least one of the pkgs I created, I used mixed case to prevent conflicts with other existing projects that google, pypi, etc. searching returned results for. But still have the name represent what it did. -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
