On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:24:29 -0500 > Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Ciaran McCreesh >> <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > 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? >> > >> > What's upstream's naming convention for Firefox? >> >> I have no idea. What's your point? > > That naming conventions are generally complicated and a mess, and that > no-one wants to have to remember whether it's firefox, Firefox, or > FireFox.
A valid point, thank you for clarifying. I will note that portage's spelling suggestion feature comes in handy here.
