On 02/12/16 01:31 PM, Ciaran McCreesh 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. >
It's also more convenient at the consone to just type everything lowercase. I expect that's the primary reason it's discouraged.
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