On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> 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? > > 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. >
This seems like a reasonable approach. Thanks.
