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'd say keeping things lowercase makes sense for end user packages. For pure dependencies with consistent conventions (e.g. perl), it makes sense to keep upstream's naming. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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