On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 04:13:48PM -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> 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.

So, should we clean up / rename packages that do not follow this as we
find them, like my ConfigArgParse example?

William

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